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Main opposition SYRIZA leader, Alexis Tsipras is moving intensely to score a resounding victory in europarliament elections so he can claim to be overturning the political backdrop.

A resounding NO was the answer from Mikis Theodorakis to the proposal by Evangelos Venizelos that he be placed as a candidate for the country's presidency.

With just over five months to go until European Parliament and local elections are held in Greece the Greek coalition government's majority in parliament shrank to just three seats on Saturday after a lawmaker rebelled over a controversial new law to extend property taxes to farmland.