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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The country's parties seal coalition deal

The country’s parties sealed a deal to form a conservative-led coalition on Wednesday and said they would start immediately to form a team to re-negotiate the tough austerity conditions in the international bailout propping up the near-bankrupt economy.

"Greece has a government," Evangelos Venizelos, head of the Socialist PASOK party told reporters after talks with conservative leader Antonis Samaras, the winner of Sunday's election.

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