NATION : Papandreou Gives Up on Coalition
Former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou gave up on forming a leftist coalition government today and again blasted communist forces for their recent deal with the right.
The Socialist leader, ordered to stand trial on criminal charges by a conservative-communist coalition that resigned Saturday, is seeking a comeback after a crushing June election defeat.
“It was not possible to form a government,” he told reporters after returning a three-day mandate to seek coalition partners to President Christos Sartzetakis.
Papandreou, 70, has accused the unprecedented right-left coalition of carrying out a political vendetta to destroy his Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, which held power from 1981 until June.
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