Deutsche Welle
Greece voters are set to go the polls for the second time in a matter
of weeks after a last-ditch attempt to form a government broke down on
Tuesday.
A spokesman for President Karolos Papoulias told reporters in Athens that his latest efforts to broker a compromise among the parties that finished strongest in this months elections had been fruitless. He did not give a date for the new polls but elections rules suggest it should be in about a month's time.
"For God's sake, let's move towards something better and not something worse” Evangelos Venizelos, the leader of the socialist Pasok party said after the meeting. "Our motherland can find its way, we will fight for it to find its way."
Greece has been in political limbo since the inconclusive election on May 6. This has left in doubt whether the country will meet its international commitments under two international bailouts. If it fails to do so it could become insolvent within a matter of weeks and there are growing fears that it will be forced to leave the eurozone.
pfd/ipj ( Reuters, AP)
A spokesman for President Karolos Papoulias told reporters in Athens that his latest efforts to broker a compromise among the parties that finished strongest in this months elections had been fruitless. He did not give a date for the new polls but elections rules suggest it should be in about a month's time.
"For God's sake, let's move towards something better and not something worse” Evangelos Venizelos, the leader of the socialist Pasok party said after the meeting. "Our motherland can find its way, we will fight for it to find its way."
Greece has been in political limbo since the inconclusive election on May 6. This has left in doubt whether the country will meet its international commitments under two international bailouts. If it fails to do so it could become insolvent within a matter of weeks and there are growing fears that it will be forced to leave the eurozone.
pfd/ipj ( Reuters, AP)
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