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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Mon May 28, 2012, 05:57 PM May 2012

Greeks will choose to stay in the euro, opinion polls say

Greece's pro-austerity party topped six opinion polls in a sign that the electorate is heeding warnings of a “catastrophe” if Athens crashes out of the euro.

New Democracy, whose leader Antonio Samaras has pleaded with Greeks not to jeopardise its bail-out agreements, outstripped the anti-austerity Syriza party by 5.7pc, according to one of the polls.

The socialist Pasok party also improved its lead, pointing to the possibility of the two main parties which have led the interim government under Lucas Papademos, to form a new coalition on June 17.

http://www.euronews.com/2012/05/28/greek-polls-soothe-fears-over-possible-euro-exit/

Greeks obviously want to remain a part of the euro and EU. I hope Hollande can get Merkel to temper the austerity measures being forced on Greece.

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