Weary Greek voters trickle to polls in knife-edge election

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By Jeremy Gaunt and Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) - Early voters in Greece were thin on the ground on Sunday to elect a government they will entrust with the daunting task of steering the country through painful bailout reforms and meeting the challenge of a growing refugee crisis. Alexis Tsipras, the firebrand leftist who lost his bitter fight with Europe's establishment to end harsh economic austerity against his country, seeks re-election a month after he resigned as prime minister. Final polls on Friday showed the race too close to call between his Syriza party and the conservative New Democracy party of Vangelis Meimarakis, who accuses his rival of crippling the economy.




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