Greek governing parties ‘lose majority’ at polls

From BBC:

… With almost all votes counted, centre-right New Democracy is leading with 18.9%, down from 33.5% in 2009.

New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said he would form a national salvation government to keep the country in the euro.  But he said he would seek to “amend” Greece’s controversial EU-IMF bailout agreement in order to boost growth…

Days of wrangling lie ahead. What is clear is that a majority of Greeks have spoken out against austerity. It could be very hard for the international community to demand yet more cuts…

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