"What matters at this time is for normality to return to the system, but also to ensure that moves affecting our weakest citizens will be avoided," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday said in a meeting with the Hellenic Bank Association.

The measures are particularly severe and highly anti-social, Parliament Vice President and SYRIZA member Alexis Mitropoulos on Tuesday said in statements to private Mega TV and called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to seek broader social and political consensus.

"What matters at this time is for normality to return to the system, but also to ensure that moves affecting our weakest citizens will be avoided," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday said in a meeting with the Hellenic Bank Association.

Debate on the fast-track legislation for prior actions demanded by Greece's creditors - including changes to the code for civil procedure and the transposition of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) into Greek law - was to begin on Wednesday morning, as announced, but the plenum has yet to convene by mid afternoon.