“I want to announce that from now is a Government in the country. The Greek Independent give a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. There is an agreement in principle, “said Panos Kammenos, party chief of the nationalist right, after meeting with Tsipras at the headquarters of SYRIZA in Athens.
” The Prime Minister will today the president for oath and announce the composition of the government, with the participation of the Independent Greeks, “he added
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The Greek Presidency Tsipras then announced that he would be appointed as the new prime minister to 14:00 hours GMT, which was fulfilled. President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias officially appointed as prime minister the leftist leader.
In addition to its link with the right, the leader of Syriza also meet with the formation of pro-European center-<. b> To Potami which would represent an alliance more moderate eye of the European Union
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After the count of 99.80% of the vote, Syriza obtained 149 seats (36.34%), the conservative New Democracy 76 MPs (27.81%), the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn 17 (6.28%), To Potami 17 (6.05%), the Communists KKE 15 (5.47%) and both Greeks Independent (4.75%) and the socialist Pasok (4.68%) will have 13 members each in Parliament.
The union between two opposing parties marks a unusual alliance the forces united by a common rejection of the bailout program Set the International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Union (EU) and the Central Bank Bank (ECB), which keeps Greece afloat
Since 2010, the EU-the creditors and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to about 240,000 million euros (equivalent to almost 270,000 million) in loans the country in exchange for the implementation of a drastic austerity plans. Now, Greece hopes the release of the final installment of the agreed loan before the end February.
The victory of SYRIZA impacted immediately on the Athens Stock Exchange, whose general index slumped Monday just minutes after opening reflecting the restlessness market the day after the victory of Syriza in the Greek legislation.
The index lost 5.5% at 8 : 40 GMT, reaching 793 points, accusing much the victory of the radical left and the other European markets, which are trading at a slight upward
In turn, the
At 07:18 GMT the European crude Brent traded in London fell 71 cents to remain in $ 48.08 barrel, erasing gains that occurred last Friday after the death of Saudi King Abdullah. While future oil prices WTI US retreated 69 cents to settle at u $ s44,90 per barrel.
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