Terens Quick has placed himself outside the Independent Greeks (ANEL) party, according to the party spokesman, Theodoros Tosounidis.

"Don't expect the government to fall. What we have agreed with our partners in the government is valid," said the leader of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks, Panos Kammenos, in Thessaloniki on Sunday.

The Tsipra-Kammenos agreement, at their last meeting at the Maximos Mansion, "to lower the tones" over the controversy of their FYROM policies, as well as in the tense relations of the two government partners in general, was yesterday violated through the statements by the Minister of Defense from Washington.