Greek PM Falls Short in First Round Presidential Vote

Greek lawmakers failed to elect a new president in a first round of voting on Wednesday, leaving Prime Minister Antonis Samaras still looking for as many as 20 votes from independents and small parties to keep his coalition government in office. With two more rounds still to come, a win for the government had not been expected on Wednesday but the result was at the lower end of expectations, just meeting the minimum threshold officials had seen as satisfactory before the vote. Of the...

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