(ANSA-AP) - ATHENS - Greeks have begun voting in an early
general election crucial for the country's financial future,
with the radical left Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras tipped as
the favorite to win, although possibly without enough votes to
form a government.
Opinion polls leading up to Sunday's vote all showed Tsipras
ahead of conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Syriza has
run on a campaign of renegotiating the country's 240 billion
euro international bailout deal, and has pledged to reverse many
of the reforms pushed through to qualify for the rescue loans
that have kept Greece financially afloat for the past four
years.
The anti-bailout rhetoric has renewed fears of Greece's ability
to definitively emerge from a financial crisis that saw a
quarter of its economy wiped out and hammered the euro.
(ANSA-AP).
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