Hard left tries to form new Greek government

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Tuesday 08 May 2012

Hard left tries to form new Greek government

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Greek conservative party leader Antonis Samaras (L) is welcomed by President Karolos Papoulias at the presidential palace

Reuters/Aris Messinis

By Rosslyn Hyams

The leader of Greece's New Democracy Party, Antonis Samaras, has said he is unable to form a coalition government. The task now passes Syriza, a hard-left party which came second in Sunday's election and has pledged to end austerity and the EU bail-out accord for Greece. Vassilils Monastiriotis, a Greek political analyst at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, discusses whether Greece will be able to form a stable government.

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