Greek Left Votes Down Bill to Remove Diaspora’s Voting Restrictions ” width=”720″> The Greek Parliament failed to approve the lifting on restrictions for the Diaspora vote. Credit: AMNA Greek leftist parties on Wednesday voted in Parliament against an amendment that would have removed all restrictions for the Diaspora to vote in national elections. The amendment proposed by the governing New Democracy party was only supported by the center-left Movement for Change and populist New Solution. SYRIZA, the Communist Party, and Yanis Varoufakis’ Mera25, voted against. ” width=”1080″> The amendment to the current law needed a two thirds majority to become law and, therefore, it was rejected as the leftist opposition holds more than 100 seats in Parliament.