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  • 14 years ago
Angry Greek voters headed to the polls on Sunday (May 6) for an election shrouded in uncertainty that could reignite Europe's debt crisis and renew doubts about the country's future in the euro zone.

The first general election since Greece's debt crisis exploded at the end of 2009 will go a long way to dictating whether the country will stick to the terms of EU/IMF bailouts which saved it from bankruptcy but propelled it into a deep recession.

At stake is whether the country that drew the decade-old euro zone into the worst crisis since its creation could push it back into turmoil.

Voters hit by record unemployment and steep wage cuts will send to parliament an unprecedented number of small parties opposed to the austerity and punish New Democracy and Socialist PASOK - the two parties who have ruled Greece for decades and the only major ones backing the bailouts.

The election is too close to call.

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