> PARLIAMENT

MPs were sworn in just before noon yesterday. This is the shortest-lived parliament in the country’s history that will be dissolved today by President Papoulias to pave the way for new elections on June 17…

> CARETAKER GOVERNMENT

According to Kathimerini, caretaker Prime Minister Panayiotis Pikrammenos asked his new cabinet to tread carefully over the next few weeks and to respect the testing situation the country finds itself in. “I would like this government to set an example of a different type of behavior…

> LUCAS PAPADEMOS

Former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned that a rejection of the Memorandum would lead the country out of the Eurozone. In an open letter published on Premier’s website and addressed to the Greek people, former PM stressed that…

> OPINION POLL

Polling company Marc presented on Alpha television station the first post-election gallop that gives an advantage to New Democracy. It shows the first three parties following an increasing trend, as compared with their election performance and keeps ND at the first position… Primary figures on voting intention have as follows: ND 23.1%, SYRIZA 21%, PASOK 13.2%, Independent Greeks 7.2%, Democratic Left 5.6%, KKE 5.1%, and Golden Dawn 4.3%, Recreate Greece 1.8%, Ecologists Greens 1.6%, Democratic Alliance 1.4% and LAOS 1.3%.

> ‘THE GREEK RUN’

London weekly magazine The Economist writes: “GREXIT” is an ugly term for what may soon become an even uglier reality: Greece’s departure from the euro zone. As fury in Athens runs up against frustration with Greek recalcitrance in the rest of the European Union, the EU’s most troubled economy could be…