VIDEO: Greek Socialists To Form New Leftist Alliance For EU Elections

Greece’s once-mighty socialist PASOK party will team up with a new center-left group to contest European Parliament elections in May rather than run alone, after its support was decimated by the country’s debt crisis. The party, a junior partner in the coalition government led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been fighting to survive as a political force since backing austerity cuts and is hoping the new alliance will help revive its fortunes. Latest polls show Samaras’ conservative New Democracy party tied with the leftist, anti-bailout Syriza party, while PASOK’s support is down to just 5-6 percent, from 43 percent when it won the national election in 2009.

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VIDEO: Greek Socialists To Form New Leftist Alliance For EU Elections

VIDEO: New Leader Renzi Boosts Support For Italy"s Main Ruling Party

The election of Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi as the new leader of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party, the biggest in the ruling coalition, has boosted support for the bloc by six percentage points nationally, a poll showed on Friday. The brash, 38-year-old Renzi’s landslide victory on Sunday lifted support to 35.6 percent for the Democratic Party from 29.6 percent a week earlier, polling institute SWG said. That put the center left about 7 percentage points ahead of the center right, after trailing by almost 2 percentage points a week earlier.

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