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Greece forms new cabinet, vows to revise bailout

AFP, Athens
Greece yesterday named a new cabinet to end two months of political deadlock and said it would aim to revise the terms of an unpopular EU-IMF bailout deal but without risking its eurozone membership.
The announcement came a day after conservative leader Antonis Samaras was sworn in as prime minister following a narrow victory over radical leftists who still won a quarter of the vote with their call to tear up the bailout deal.
New Democracy took 129 of the 300 parliamentary seats including an extra 50 seats given to the winner and Syriza took 71 seats. Pasok took 33 and Democratic Left won 17, which gives the new government amajorityof29seats.
A joint statement by the conservative, socialist and moderate leftist parties in the coalition said the aim was "to revise terms of the loan agreement without endangering the country's European course and its place in the euro.”
The new team also pledged to honour Greece's targets on deficit reduction, debt control and structural reforms following landmark elections on Sunday.
The most closely-watched appointment
was that of Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's biggest lender National Bank of Greece, who will spearhead efforts to aid an economy now in a fifth year of recession as the new finance minister.
The new foreign minister will be New Democracy's
Dimitris Avramopoulos, a former diplomat and ex-Athens mayor who was previously defence minister.
Most new ministers were expected to be formally sworn in later yesterday.
The coalition is led by Samaras's New Democracy party and will have the backing of the socialist Pasok party and the small Democratic Left party, although both junior partners did not include their lawmakers in the cabinet.
Some analysts said the move was designed to avoid responsibility for enforcing contested austerity measures, others that it was a way of making the government more popular by using technocrats instead of politicians.
Greece is hoping for a two-year extension to 2016 for its recovery plan and a further loan of up to 20 billion euros ($25 billion), a finance ministry source said on Wednesday, according to the state-run Athens News Agency.