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Greek elections marked by anger over austerity measures Far-left and far-right parties could benefit from disappointment in the Greek political system, and the results of the May 6 elections promise a more chaotic response to the financial crisis.
May 16, 2012
Leader of the Radical Left party Alexis Tsipras leaves the Presidential Palace after his meeting with the president and other Greek political leaders in Athens. Greek state TV said the country's new elections will be held on June 17, and Council of State head Panagiotis Pikramenos will be appointed to head the interim government until then.
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May 16, 2012
Leader of the Greek Communist party Aleka Papariga, left, and head of the KKE press office Makis Mailis leave the Presidential Palace after a meeting with the president and the other Greek political leaders in Athens.
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May 16, 2012
Leader of the Democratic Left party Fotis Kouvelis leaves the Presidential Palace after his meeting with the president and the other Greek political leaders in Athens.
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May 16, 2012
Leader of Conservatives New Democracy party Antonis Samaras, leaves the Presidential Palace after his meeting with the president and the other Greek political leaders in Athens.
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May 16, 2012
Greek presidential guards perform ceremonial duties outside the Presidential Palace during a meeting of party leaders convened by President Karolos Papoulias in Athens.
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May 16, 2012
From left: Greek political leaders Aleka Papariga, leader of the Greek Communist Party, Socialist Pasok party leader Evangelos Venizelos, Conservative New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras, Greek President Karolos Papoulias, head of Greece's radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Independent Greeks party Panos Kammenos and leader of the Democratic Left Party Fotis Kouvelis meet at the presidential palace in Athens.
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May 16, 2012
Panos Kamenos, center, leader of the right-wing splinter Independent Greeks party arrives at the presidential palace for a meeting with President Karolos Papoulias, in Athens.
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May 4, 2012
A man and his children walk past pre-election posters of the Democratic Left party in Athens. Greece holds general elections Sunday.
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May 4, 2012
A woman checks lists with polling stations in Athens two days before general elections. Greek voters enraged by economic hardship could punish traditional parties in a highly uncertain election Sunday that could plunge the country into new political chaos and shake the entire euro zone.
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May 4, 2012
A municipal worker comes out of a voting booth at a voting center in Athens.
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May 4, 2012
A municipal worker sets up a ballot box at a voting center in Athens.
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May 3, 2012
A woman holds a flag during a pre-election rally of the Greek Left Coalition Party in central Athens. Crunch elections in Greece on Sunday might not produce a government with a strong enough mandate to push through yet more austerity cuts to satisfy Athens's international creditors. Sunday's election is expected to see Greek voters, many of them fed up with grinding austerity drives, vote for parties that say they would scrap deals with the European Union and International Monetary Fund.
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May 3, 2012
Antonis Samaras, leader of the New Democracy party, speaks during a pre-election rally at Zappeion hall in Athens. Samaras appealed to Greeks for the support that could give him victory in Sunday’s elections and allow him to govern without the support of mainstream rival Socialists.
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May 3, 2012
Supporters of Antonis Samaras, leader of the Greek conservative party New Democracy, wave flags during a pre-election speech in Athens.
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May 3, 2012
Greek conservative party supporters wave flares during a pre-election rally in Athens.
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May 3, 2012
Supporters of Greek conservative party New Democracy gather to listen to a pre-election speech of their leader Antonis Samaras in Athens.
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May 3, 2012
Former prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, center, walks through the crowd during a pre-election rally at Zappeion hall in Athens.
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May 3, 2012
Supporters of the Left Coalition Party wait for its leader's speech during the party's main pre-election rally in central Athens.
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May 3, 2012
Veteran leftist politician Manolis Glezos waves to supporters during an election campaign rally of Greece's Left Coalition party in Athens. Glezos, 89, a former wartime fighter against Nazi occupation, hopes Sunday's election will fulfill a lifetime dream. Revered by all political sides as a national treasure, he is most famous for scaling the steep walls of the Acropolis with a friend in 1941 to take down the swastika and replace it with the Greek flag, the first visible act of resistance against the Nazis occupying Greece.
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May 3, 2012
Head of Greece's Left Coalition party Alexis Tsipras delivers his speech during an election campaign rally in Athens.
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May 3, 2012
Workers fill a truck with voting papers and ballot boxes in an Athens warehouse before delivering them to polling stations around the city.
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May 3, 2012
People walk by an election poster of the Democratic Alliance party in Athens.
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