Anti-euro, pro-drachma party Popular Unity told: form a government if you can
by Helena Smith in Athens from on (#JB99)
Party formed after split from Alexis Tsipras's Syriza, unlikely to succeed
An explicitly anti-euro, pro-drachma party has assumed the process of attempting to form a government in Greece, four days after prime minister Alexis Tsipras resigned to pave the way for snap elections.
Panagiotis Lafazanis, the Marxist former energy minister who on Friday formed his own movement of rebels after breaking ranks with Tsipras's far-left Syriza party, was given a mandate to try to forge a new administration by president Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
