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Nov 15, 2010

Greece's Socialists win local elections

Prime Minister George Papandreou, second from right, congratulates newly elected greater Athens governor Yiannis Sgouros, right, and the city's mayor-elect Giorgos Kaminis, left, on Sunday.
Greece's governing Socialists emerged the winner of local government elections Sunday, despite a record low turnout and renewed pressure on the crisis-hit nation to impose a new round of drastic spending cuts.
With 99.6 per cent of the vote counted nationwide, the Socialists won mayoral races in Athens and Greece's second largest city,

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