BRUSSELS, May 9 (Reuters) - The board of the euro zone's EFSF bailout fund will decide later on Wednesday whether to make a 5.2 billion euro ($6.8 billion)payment to Greece after some Greek parties which did well in elections rejected the terms of the EU/IMF bailout.
Sources said the board, which is made up of representatives from the 17 euro zone countries, would more likely than not decide to release the payment scheduled for May 10, although a final decision is not expected until about 1600 GMT.
"The outcome may be that Greece will still get this disbursement," one senior euro zone official said. "Then we will see what the next steps in Greece are.
"It will be decided today. It is more likely that it will be paid out. But there is opposition," the official said, adding that opponents were concerned about the growing anti-bailout sentiment emerging from Greece.
"There is a certain concern among those who are paying, given the noises that are around the formation of the Greek government, that if there are serious political forces in Greece that say they will default anyway, then why give then a few more billion to default on?"
Another EU official said the payment would be approved.
The senior official said that if Greece did not get the money, it would face financing problems soon.
"They will be in serious trouble next week already. They have to cover the deficit - how will they pay salaries?" the official said.
Greece also needed money to redeem some debt that was not exchanged in the Greek debt swap from last month, the official added.
