Ill Greek Premier Asks to See President
Ailing Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, who may at last be ready to resign or name an official deputy after seven weeks in the hospital, said Thursday that he wants to see Greece’s president.
Government spokesman Telemachos Hytiris said the meeting would take place in the next few days, when President Costis Stephanopoulos returns from France. Newspapers said the only reason for such a meeting would be to quit or appoint a deputy leader.
Papandreou, 76, has been on life-support systems for his failing lungs and kidneys since shortly after entering the Onassis Heart Center with pneumonia Nov. 20.
Doctors have said he is now showing signs of improvement and is even walking and talking a bit, news that has sent a shiver through a pack of would-be successors waiting in the wings.
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