Ruling party leads Greek local vote

Greece’s prime minister has said he is satisfied with the outcome of local elections and would continue reforms without calling a snap parliamentary poll. “Making a change is not easy. Greek people brought us to power a year ago and today confirmed that they want this change. We will continue with our task tomorrow,”George Papandreou said in a televised address to the nation following Sunday’s elections. Papandreou had threatened to dissolve parliament barely a year after coming to power if the first round of the regional elections had failed to give him a clear mandate to pursue budget cuts and reforms agreed in May under a $155bn EU/International Monetary Fund bailout to save Greece from…

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Ruling party leads Greek local vote

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