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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8619

9 January 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/greece
General elections on 7 March

Athens, 08/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Greek prime minister and ruling Pasok leader Costas Simitis has announced that general elections will take place on 7 March (they were expected for May at the latest, according to provisions in the Greek constitution). Mr Simitis indicated that a new president of Pasok, the foreign affairs minister, George Papandreou, would head the new government if the Socialists won the elections. According to the ANA agency, Mr Simitis explained that he had...

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