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May 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “A government without Syriza would not have the necessary popular and parliamentary backing,” Fotis Kouvelis, head of the Democratic Left party (DIMAR) said on Monday.
Greece now faces the prospect of new elections after political parties failed to form a coalition government over divisions on painful austerity measures, reinforcing fears that the country was on a path to bankruptcy and an exit from the eurozone.
The Greek President Karolos Papoulias has called the four main parties, including the centre-right New Democracy and the Socialist Pasok, in a last-ditch effort to break the political deadlock by joining a coalition.
Late on Sunday, Greece’s Radical Left party (Syriza), which came second in the election, announced that it will not attend further meetings because it could not back any coalition that supports austerity.
“Syriza refuses to be a left-wing alibi for a government that will continue the policies the people rejected on May 6,” Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said.
Debt-stricken Greece is now grappling with political uncertainty after the elections gave no party enough seats in parliament to form a government.
Greeks are angry at two years of harsh austerity measures imposed in return for bailouts from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.
Other political leaders claimed that Tsipras’s policy was irresponsible and will force the country out of the euro, but stressed that his party was necessary in forming a coalition as it came second in the election.
Greece is forced to hold new elections next month if it does not succeed in resolving the political impasse by Thursday.
PG/JR/AZ
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