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                Polls to Close to Call Sunday's Greek Elections

   by VOA News

   Greeks vote Sunday in their third national elections in eight months,
   during which the country held a referendum, and experienced the
   shutdown of its banking system and capital controls that limited daily
   cash withdrawals.

   The winner of the parliamentary vote is expected to implement deep
   economic reforms in order to receive a $98 billion bailout package
   brokered in August, a recapitalization of the country's banks and the
   capital controls imposed earlier this year.

   Both leading parties, Syriza and New Democracy, as well as most other
   smaller parties are committed to the bailout, including tax increases
   and reforms demanded by international creditors to keep Greece afloat,
   despite their different approaches to pensions and labor reform.
   Survey results released Friday showed that former prime minister Alexis
   Tsipras' radical-left Syriza party and the central-right New Democracy
   party of Vangelis Meimarakis would not win an outright majority.

   If polls are correct, coalition talks would be necessary after the
   tally becomes know, probably no sooner than Monday morning.
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