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Greece was receiving the first 13 billion-euro ($14.5 billion) payment of its new bailout Thursday, with 12 billion euros earmarked for repaying debts and the remainder for settling arrears to public sector suppliers.
Athens was using the funds to repay a 3.2 billion euro ($3.5 billion) debt installment due Thursday to the European Central Bank - an amount it could not have afforded to repay without the bailout from 18 other European nations that share the euro currency with Greece.
European bailout fund supervisors approved the release Wednesday evening.
Without the rescue loans - Greece's third bailout in little more than five years - the country would have defaulted on its debts and faced being forced out of the eurozone.
The new three-year bailout is worth 86 billion euros ($95.6 billion), and the disbursement of funds is dependent on the Greek government implementing a series of reforms, including steep tax hikes and spending cuts.
Accepting the conditions was a major reversal of policy for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the coalition government between his radical left Syriza party and the small nationalist Independent Greeks. It has cost him a major rebellion within Syriza that threatens to split the party and could lead to an early election as soon as next month.
Tsipras has been contemplating his options after a parliament vote to approve the bailout conditions led to dozens of his own party lawmakers voting against him. Among the options being discussed are for him to call a vote of confidence in his government or to call an early election, potentially in September.
The government has said its main priority was to secure the bailout funding and the repayment of the ECB loan on Thursday, after which it would announce any further action.
Tsipras won January elections on promises to repeal similar austerity measures attached to Greece's two previous bailouts. But he has said accepting creditor demands for yet more reforms was the only way to ensure his country remains in the eurozone, which opinion polls have shown the vast majority of his population wants.
Hardliners within his party have accused him of capitulating to unreasonable demands that will plunge the Greek economy further into recession.
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