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WORLD, Page 41World NotesGREECEThree Months And Counting
After nine days of trying to form a coalition to end the
parliamentary stalemate that followed Greece's elections on June
18, both hospitalized caretaker Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou
and conservative leader Constantine Mitsotakis dropped their
insistence on being appointed head of the new government. At that,
Communist Party chief Harilaos Florakis, leader of the Alliance of
the Left and Progress, which holds the balance of power between the
two rivals, announced that he would support a three-month
government with Mitsotakis' New Democracy Party.
The main task of the new administration, to be headed by
veteran New Democracy parliamentarian Tzannis Tzannetakis, will be
the investigation and punishment of senior officials involved in
a web of financial scandals, including the alleged embezzlement of
some $210 million from the Bank of Crete. Once that is achieved,
new elections will be scheduled.