admindown from 33,5 percent at the last election in 2009, the exit polls showed.
The left-wing Pasok saw its score slump to 14-17 percent from 43,9 percent. The party was even leap-frogged into second place by the leftist Syriza party, which scored 15,5-18,5 percent, up from 4,6 percent three years ago.
A neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, was also set to enter parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years, notching up 6-8 percent. The communist KKE scored 7,5-9,5 percent, compared to 7,5 percent in 2009, the exit polls showed.
Both Pasok and ND have said they want the “troika” of the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank to cut Greece more slack in their two bail-out deals worth worth US$314,0 billion.
But with voters angry at the austerity cuts demanded in response, many of the smaller parties — including Syriza — want to tear up the agreements, while the communist KKE party want to leave the eurozone.
The result therefore will make it tough for Samaras, once he is tasked to do so by the president, to form a government able to keep its austerity promises and implement more cuts demanded by the country’s creditors. — AFP.
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CAB3 tabled in Parliament
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