Majority Of Cypriot Parties Refuse To Support Deposit-Loss Law

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/18/2013 15:03 -0400

Update: Just as we predicted - Cyprus president Anastasiades to tell Eurogroup he lacks support and votes to pass levy - Antenna

Moments ago the state-run CYBC media reported perhaps the most material news ahead of tomorrow's Cyprus parliamentary vote, which at this point will likely be rescheduled once more, for the simple reason that yet another key Cypriot party, DIKO, has come out and decided to vote against the depositor-loss law on the Parliament's docket tomorrow. This is notable because while yesterday JPM, in its "bazooka" assessment speculated that DIKO would vote for the law which made sense previously as DIKO had supported president Anastasiades in his election bid, which gave a pro-bailout vote a one vote margin. As a result of today's flip, theparty's 9 votes will now be aligned with the "anti" votes of AKEL  and EDEK, whose combined 33 votes mean the proposed bailout law has no chance of passing as they have the needed 29 votes to block any bail-in out proposal! The Eurogroup better come up with some very convincing adjustments to the deposit haircut scheme in its ongoing conference, or else tomorrow's vote will be quite painful for the Fed's "wealth effect creation vehicle", once upon a time known as the S&P 500.

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