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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Greek PM Samaras forced into U-turn as Syriza closes in on election victory

With two weeks until Greece votes, Antonis Samaras needs a miracle to defeat Alexis Tsipras’s radical left party, say pollstersWith elections barely two weeks away and every poll against him, Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras began to sing from a different hymn sheet this weekend, focusing on his government’s handling of the economy in a desperate bid to win round voters.Unveiling a plan of national growth and reform in Athens on Saturday and dropping claims that a vote for the leftwing Syriza party would lead Greece into chaos, the premier sought to convince Greeks that only his conservative New Democracy party could guide the crisis-plagued country to economic recovery. Continue reading...


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