Papademos's mistake was not to demand a fully technocratic administration like Monti's in Italy.
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos expressed his regret Wednesday in a statement issued by his office.
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Mr Papademos kept a dignified distance from the chaotic politicking of the last week.
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos expressed his regret in a statement issued by his office.
Over the next few weeks Mr Papademos will struggle with the country's first coalition government in modern times.
Lucas Papademos, the technocrat prime minister, will stand down in favour of a senior state lawyer or judge.
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Mr Papademos, 64, was named following days of tough negotiations between party leaders.
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Consensus indicates that former ECB vice president Lucas Papademos would be his replacement.
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Mr Venizelos threw his hat into the ring at the last moment, after running a whispering campaign against Mr Papademos.
Lucas Papademos, the new Greek prime minister, is preoccupied with the financial crisis and uncomfortable dealing with the name row.
But MPS voted against extending the probe to another ex-finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, and former PMs Lucas Papademos and George Papandreou.
The new Greek interim PM is Lucas Papademos, pictured in the middle, while the man on the left is Klaus Regling.
There had also been calls to investigate M Papademos and Mr Papandreou.
The two heads of a private-sector creditors' committee negotiating a debt write-down plan with Greece also joined talks at Mr. Papademos's office late Sunday.
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Greece was briefly run by Lucas Papademos, an unelected former central banker, and Italy is still ruled by Mario Monti, a former EU commissioner.
And in Greece, the government of former central banker Lucas Papademos has passed its first budget promising to reduce the deficit without further austerity measures.
Mr Papademos replaces Greece's outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou, who was forced to step aside after a disastrous call for a referendum on the eurozone rescue package.
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In Greece, former European banker and ECB vice president Lucas Papademos was named the new prime minister, which is seen as a positive thing for the restructuring country.
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In the spirit of the Marshall Plan, Unconventional Logic is providing Dr. Papademos with a draft of the speech that he should give to the Greek people next week.
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Mr Papademos, a former European Central Bank vice-president, was sworn in after his Socialist predecessor, George Papandreou, was ousted over his call for a referendum on the second bailout.
There has been speculation that the new coalition could be led by current Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos or by Lukas Papademos, a former deputy president of the European Central Bank.
Mr. Papademos also held talks late Sunday with representatives from the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank known as the troika while the party leaders held separate meetings with their associates.
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Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos was trying to negotiate a broad caretaker government to allow Lucas Papademos, former ECB vice-president, to carry on for at least nine months, or a year, and Samaras resisted that effort.
Yet there is no obvious coalition partner for Mr Samaras apart from the right-wing Laos (People's) party under George Karatzaferis, now enjoying its first taste of power as a junior partner in Mr Papademos's government.
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But the reason the last supposedly technocratic administration of Lucas Papademos had a hard time passing meaningful reform was because it included PASOK and ND ministers, who carried on their internecine feud with an eye to the polls.
He was preceded by Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, a former banker and European Central Bank vice president, also an unelected politician who was sworn in as head of an interim government on November 11, 2011, after four days of political wrangling.
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What may turn out to be most important is that the Greek government moved nearer to a formal default on what it owes, as talks collapsed between the Greek premier, Lucas Papademos, and representatives of banks on a voluntary 50% reduction on what they are repaid.
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