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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has until Wednesday night to get
those measures adopted in the assembly. A first set of reforms
triggered a rebellion in his party last week and passed only
thanks to votes from pro-EU opposition parties.
The second bill, though less divisive, will still be a test his
weakened majority.
It puts into Greek law new European Union rules on propping up
failed banks, decreed after the 2008 financial crisis and aimed
at shielding taxpayers from the risk of having to bail out
troubled lenders.
The so-called bank recovery and resolution directive (BRRD)
imposes losses on shareholders and creditors of ailing lenders,
in a process known as "bail-in", before any taxpayers' money can
be tapped in a bank rescue.
The European Commission in late May gave Italy, France and nine
other EU countries two months to adopt the rules, which were
meant to be applied by the end of 2014, or face legal action.
The bailout bill also includes the adoption of new rules for the
country's civil justice system, aimed at accelerating lengthy
judicial processes and cutting costs.
Together with his coalition partners from the right-wing
Independent Greeks party, Tsipras has 162 seats in the 300-seat
parliament. But last week's rebellion cut his support to just
123 votes, meaning he is likely to need opposition votes again.
Greece on Monday reopened its banks and repaid billions of euros
owed to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central
Bank in the first signs of a return to normality after it struck
a cash-for-reforms deal with other euro zone countries last
week.
(Reporting by Lefteris Papadimas and Ingrid Melander; Editing by
Andrew Heavens)
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