Greek conservative opposition hands back mandate to form govt
By: Reuters | Aug 24 2015 at 03:59 AM | International Trade
ATHENS - The leader of Greece’s main opposition party handed back a mandate to form a government to the country’s president on Monday, after failing to do so within a three-day deadline following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s resignation last week.
President Prokopis Pavlopoulos was expected to hand the mantle to leftist leader Panagiotis Lafazanis next.
The hard-left politician has the third-largest grouping in the Greek parliament following the creation last week of the Popular Unity party, a splinter group from the left-wing Syriza party in power since January.