Popular Unity, formed after split from Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza, unlikely to succeedAn explicitly anti-euro, pro-drachma party has assumed the process of attempting to form a government in Greece, four days after prime minister Alexis Tsipras resigned to pave the way for snap elections. Panagiotis Lafazanis, the Marxist former energy minister who on Friday formed his own movement of rebel lawmakers after breaking ranks with Tsipras’s far-left Syriza party, was given a mandate to try to forge a new administration by president Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Continue reading...