Clashes broke out in Greece's two biggest cities as protesters threw petrol bombs and fireworks outside parliament during debates on a no-confidence vote in the government over its handling of a deadly train crash two years ago.
Police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons at protesters as clashes broke out in Athens just minutes after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis began his speech at the end of three days of debate.
The government successfully overcame a no-confidence vote by 157-136, which was announced late on Friday. Inside the assembly, activists in the spectators' gallery threw leaflets at lawmakers before they were ejected by police.
Violence also erupted in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
Mr Mitsotakis's centre-right government faced a vote of censure over a 2023 train disaster that killed 57 people and injured dozens.
Friday's protests, the third round of nationwide protests in a week, came as the second anniversary of the tragedy in Tempe in northern Greece on February 28, 2023, was marked.
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