George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, may have survived a crucial vote of confidence last night that will allow his government to push ahead with its proposed “austerity budget” to allow a second bailout.

But Financial News readers are clearly not confident about the long-term prospects of his government. In an online poll, held in the four-day period leading up to the confidence vote in Athens, Financial News readers suggested Evangelos Venizelos, the new minister of finance who was appointed on Friday, is likely to be gone by the end of the year.