Greece Strives for Government After Election Raises Doubt
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Greece’s political leaders are locked in a fifth day of talks to carve out a government, with Evangelos Venizelos, the socialist Pasok leader, pressing counterparts on a proposal for a unity government that would avert a new election amid mounting concern of a euro exit.
New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras was first to meet with Venizelos, who received the mandate to form a government yesterday. Samaras said Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis’s unity proposal designed to keep the country in the euro region was similar to his own, meeting two key points of keeping the country in the currency union and renegotiating bailout conditions to boost growth.