Greeks vote on whether to give leftists another chance

Athens, Sep 20 (ANI): Greeks returned to the polls on Sunday, with Alexis Tsipras, the firebrand Greek leftist who failed after bitter fighting with Europe's establishment to end its harsh economic austerity against his country, seeking re-election a month after he resigned as prime minister. His Syriza party is in a tight election race with the conservative New Democracy party of Vangelis Meimarakis, who accuses Tsipras of incompetence in dealing with international creditors who have been bailing out the debt-strapped country. The election is being watched closely outside Greece because the winner will need to oversee deep economic reforms required for an 86-billion-euro bailout. The new government will also have to arrange a recapitalisation of the country's banks, and the unwinding of capital controls imposed in June to prevent an implosion of the financial system.