| ALJAZEERA: …Conservative New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said his efforts to form a “national salvation” administration had failed, meaning the runner-up, radical leftist party Syriza, would now be tasked with forming a government…
Samaras was rebuffed by Syriza and the small Democratic Left group, while the nationalist Independent Greeks and the Communist party refused to even meet with him. The parties’ snub of Samaras indicates they are paying more attention to the punishing message sent Sunday by voters fed up with austerity measures than to worries about the future of the euro or stern warnings from Berlin and Brussels… Another election, possibly as soon as next month, looms for a country that is reliant on international support to avoid bankruptcy… (more) EDITOR: An in depth report on BBC discussed Greece leaving the Eurozone as a distinct possibility, perhaps showing that the voters have more sense than the politicians. |
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