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Samaras Gets Mandate to Form a Coalition

ATHENS – New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras, who squeaked out a narrow win over the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) of anti-austerity champion Alexis Tsipras in the critical June 17 elections, met with Greek President Karolos Papoulias...

New Democracy Pulls Away from SYRIZA, Tsipras Concedes

ATHENS –In a political thriller that was too close to call after the initial exit polls, the pro-austerity New Democracy Conservatives were projected to win the critical June 17 elections, edging out the anti-austerity Coalition of the Radical Left...

Too Close to Call: Exit Polls Show No Winner Yet in Greek Elections

ATHENS - After a deadlocked May 6 election that failed to give any party enough votes to form a government in the midst of Greece's worst economic crisis since World War II, and six anguishing weeks in between with...

The Cowards of Golden Dawn Hide in the Dark

ATHENS - As if any more proof was needed that the Nazis of Golden Dawn are really just cowardly bullies who do their fighting in packs like mad dogs when they can pounce on one victim without fear of...

Greek President's Office Says Kammenos Lied About Document

ATHENS – The office of Greek President Karolos Papoulias said Independent Greeks party leader Panos Kammenos had given the President a document offering to join a coalition government before talks broke down and was not telling the truth when...

Coalition Hopes Fade, New Elections Seem Likely

ATHENS – With Europe and world markets watching anxiously, Greece’s hopes of forming a coalition government were deadlocked in debate over whether to stick to austerity measures demanded by international lenders in return for two bailouts of $325 billion...

Tsipras Woos Partners But Says No Bailout Deal

ATHENS – Greece’s new power broker, SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras, is trying to form a coalition government in the wake of the country’s fractured election results, but has laid down tough conditions that would require a rejection of...

Samaras Says He Can't Form Coalition, SYRIZA's Turn Is Next

ATHENS – New Democracy head Antonis Samaras, whose party finished first in the May 6 general elections but with less than 19 percent of the vote, said after less than a day of trying that he can’t form a...

Without a Coalition, New Elections Loom in Greece

ATHENS – New Democracy Conservative party leader Antonis Samaras, whose party gained first place in the May 6 elections with only 18.86 percent of the vote – its worst showing ever – has until May 10 to form a...

Greece's Critical Election Campaign Set to Kick Off

ATHENS - With only three weeks to woo voters before the May 6 election, Greece's political parties will try to rally support beginning this week in a campaign to elect a new Prime Minister and government amid rising anger...