Greece's governing conservatives boycotted a Parliament vote Friday on whether to consider criminal charges against government officials, a move the opposition slammed as unprecedented.
By keeping his deputies away from the vote over the burgeoning monastery land swap scandal, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis guaranteed that the motion would fail: It needed 151 votes in the 300-member parliament to pass, and the conservatives hold 152 seats.
"The image Parliament presents today is unprecedented in parliamentary history," thundered opposition socialist PASOK deputy Evangelos Venizelos, whose party had brought the motion.
The absence of …
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