Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos was released from hospital on Wednesday after a one-day stay over an inflamed appendix, a finance ministry source told AFP.
But it was not immediately clear if he was well enough to accompany Prime Minister George Papandreou to a G20 summit in Cannes.
Papandreou is expected to face tough questions from fellow European and eurozone leaders over a controversial referendum on a hard-fought EU debt deal agreed last week.
“The minister has returned home to rest, we do not currently know whether he will go to Cannes,” the finance ministry source said.
Papandreou is facing an internal party revolt and is battling for his political survival after securing his cabinet’s backing for the referendum plan ahead of a confidence vote in parliament on Friday.
A number of ruling party lawmakers have threatened to oppose the referendum — on the grounds that it undermines Greece’s rescue efforts — and one defected on Tuesday, reducing the government’s parliamentary strength to 152 deputies in the 300-seat chamber.
Athens, Nov 2, 2011 (AFP)
