Greek government faces confidence vote after botched blizzard response

Opposition leader Alexis Tsipras files censure motion, also citing poor handling of wildfires and pandemic

Greece's main opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras, has filed a motion of no confidence in the government, saying its bungled response to a winter blizzard this week showed it was no longer fit for office.

Submitting the censure motion, the leftist former prime minister, said Kyriakos Mitsotakis's administration was the worst the country has known" since the collapse of military rule in 1974.