Greece may call early election, admits Tsipras

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has admitted that the country may have to call an early election due to rebels within his Syriza party.

Speaking on local radio station Sto Kokkino on Wednesday, Tsipras said he may be forced to call an early election if he does not have a working parliamentary majority,

He said he aimed to hold a party conference in September, after a bailout deal is agreed, to decide on the party's future.

"I would be the last person to want elections, if I had the secured parliamentary majority to make it through to the end of the four-year term," Tsipras said, according to a Reuters translation.

"But if I don't have a parliamentary majority, we will be forced to go to elections."