Earlier government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili said the government expected to wrap up bailout talks with the lenders by August.

Hardware store owner Costas Kitsos says sales have plummeted since capital controls were imposed on June 29.

Tsipras is also struggling to keep a lid on dissent within SYRIZA as a bloc of around 30 of the party’s 149 MPs object to his compromise with creditors, which foresees more austerity. Several MPs of the ruling Syriza party voted against the new deal with the country’s creditors. “Today we must all redefine the possibilities ahead of us given the new circumstances”, Tsipras said in an appeal to parliament to back the reforms on Thursday.

Tsipras also ruled out resigning.

“The left’s presence in government is a bastion for the defense of the interests of the people“, he said.

Prasinoudis’ wife and 11-year-old daughter have already moved to Germany – ironically the country blamed for numerous economic and social problems afflicting Greece. Minor violence marred the end of the protest when a few teenagers threw petrol bombs at riot police, but no injuries or arrests were reported. Formal negotiations are due to start on Friday.

Gerovassili said negotiations with Greece’s creditors would resume immediately after Thursday’s vote.

The two sides are under enormous pressure to hammer out the rescue deal before August 20, when Athens is scheduled to make a loan repayment of €3.2 billion to the European Central Bank that it can not now afford.

On Wednesday, the ECB increased its cash lifeline to Greek banks by €900m – the second rise in a week.

But senior officials from Greece’s bailout monitors told the Financial Times that Athens had subsequently demanded restrictions on negotiators, including on whom creditors could meet with and what topics were to be discussed in the talks. The Greek financial system is extremely lacking in liquidity. It almost crashed out of the eurozone this month, after relations between Athens and its creditors hit rock-bottom, and was only saved by a last-minute U-turn from Tsipras.

The rebellion was slightly smaller than in a vote on a first bailout bill last week when 39 Syriza lawmakers dissented. Now they’re demanding more cuts and taxes ahead of a third bailout, which has angered many Greeks.

One of Tsipras’ closest aides said that the understanding with the opposition parties could not last long and a clear solution was needed, underlining widespread expectations that new elections may come as soon as September or October.

“Francois Hollande is very good at telling others how to do their reforms“, opposition French conservative Xavier Bertrand said in a dig at France’s Socialist leader, a key broker in the Greek accord. But party critics insisted they continued to back Tsipras while disagreeing over the terms of the third bailout.

The judicial overhaul passed is meant to reduce the backlog of cases, particularly revenue-related cases.

“Troika” has become a byword for harsh austerity policies in Greece.

Five years after the first bailout by Greece’s partners in the euro currency and the global Monetary Fund, some 85,000 retailers have gone out of business and the sector has lost 45 per cent of its income, according to the National Confederation of Greece Commerce. That took the country’s debt burden down to 168.8 percent from 177.1 percent.