Samaras Is Sworn In as Greek Premier – WSJ.com

Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras was sworn in as prime minister Wednesday at the head of a three-party coalition that is tasked with carrying out the country’s harsh European-led bailout.

…..Although New Democracy won the most votes in the elections, it didn’t control enough seats to govern on its own and had to seek coalition partners to control a majority in Greece’s 300-member Parliament. Combined with the forces of the Socialist and the small Democratic Left parties, the coalition will hold 179 seats.

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Greece’s Government Teeters – WSJ.com

Amid rising speculation he will have to resign his post, Mr. Papandreou’s overture to the center-right New Democracy party [to drop referendum plans if they can secure broad support for a new loan agreement and austerity measures] was a clear sign the prime minister and his Pasok socialist party no longer had the political clout to impose increasing financial hardships on its people to comply with aid conditions. Political insiders now predict a coalition as caretaker government to complete aid talks, followed by snap elections early next year.

via Greece’s Government Teeters – WSJ.com.