The International Monetary Fund will seek assurances by Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy in case the fund decides to participate in the Greek program. In the regular briefing on Thursday, the spokesman of IMF, Gerry Rice, did not rule out assurances by the Greek opposition.

Assurances mean that Greece’s main opposition party conservative New Democracy would have to commit to the implementation of the additional austerity measures to be implemented after the current program concludes in 2018.