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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 12-05-13
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[01] President begins critical meeting with party leaders
[01] President begins critical meeting with party leaders
AMNA- President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias began a critical
meeting at noon Sunday with leading political party leaders in a final
effort to form a government, just one week after the inconclusive May
6 general elections.
Under the procedures set out in Article 37 of the Constitution, Papoulias
convened the leaders of the first three parties -- New Democracy (ND),
the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and PASOK -- after successive
exploratory mandates to the three in turn failed to find common ground
for the formation of a coalition government with a parliamentary majority
in the 300-member unicameral House.(AMNA)
Papoulias is initially meeting together with ND leader Antonis Samaras,
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos.(AMNA)
Following, he will have one-on-one meetings with the leaders of the
other four parties elected to parliament in last Sunday's elections:
Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos, Communist Party of Greece
(KKE) leader Aleka Papariga, ultra-right Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn)
leader Nikos Mihaloliakos, and Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis
Kouvelis respectively.(AMNA)
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