Between them, New Democracy, Pasok and Democratic Left would have a majority of 29.
Lessig is a leading figure on the social democratic left, the director of the Edmond J.
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Civic Platform's poll ratings have dipped a bit, mainly to the benefit of the Democratic Left.
The coalition will also include the Socialists (Pasok) and the smaller Democratic Left.
Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos called for a national-unity government including the Democratic Left and Syriza as well as New Democracy.
New Democracy lawmakers dominate the 38-member government, with only a handful of representatives coming from Pasok and the Democratic Left.
His most likely allies could be the populist Roldosista Party, with 15 seats, and dissident members of the Democratic Left party.
The darling of the Social Democratic left, Mr Lafontaine claims that wage rises are needed to boost demand and create jobs.
The Pole's municipal triumphs amount to a breakthrough for the moderate democratic left in a country where it has never been strong.
The new president's backers are a heterogeneous coalition of the conservative Social Christians, the Democratic Left and Pachakutik, a left-wing Andean-Indian party.
Against this block, probably, will be ranged the Democratic Left party and the party of former president Abdala Bucaram, deposed in February.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party leads a coalition government which also includes the socialist Pasok and the small Democratic Left party.
It may even get enough to form a coalition government with the old socialists of Pasok and the eurocommunists of the Democratic Left.
During the Athens metro strike, Democratic Left, the smallest partner in the three-party ruling coalition, described the civil mobilisation order as "an extreme choice".
At the first congress of the Democratic Left, in March 2011, in an extraordinary move, the then serving Pasok prime minister, George Papandreou, attended.
The government seems prepared, belatedly, to start building bridges to parties such as the Democratic Left, which supports a reform, not abolition, of income tax.
Six sitting MPs joined the Democratic Left, while others tried to form an anti-austerity left social democratic party, led by charismatic female MP Louka Katseli.
New Democracy won 129 seats in Greece's 300-seat parliament on Sunday, followed by Syriza with 71, Pasok with 33 and the Democratic Left with 17.
One voice speaking for this nationalism at the moment is that of Bulent Ecevit, a deputy prime minister and leader of the Democratic Left party.
The Democratic left may have the rhetorical energy at the moment.
One possible candidate could be the small, Democratic Left party, which accepts the loan deal but wants an easing of the terms of the austerity measures.
Even those parties joining the coalition have said they do want changes to the bailout deal - and in particular the junior member, the Democratic Left.
Marek Belka, the prime minister, is in a weak position, as his ruling Democratic Left Alliance has been falling apart over scandals and a weak economy.
Fotis Kouvelis, the Democratic Left leader, still insists that Greece will ask its European partners for an extra two years to implement the new austerity package.
It's an answer that will enrage the Democratic left -- and, most notably, labor -- but it might actually help sell the legislation to the public.
"The Democratic Left is insisting that this platform will contain commitments that will ensure the removal of measures that have gravely affected the Greek society, " Kouvelis said.
Some analysts said Mr. Samaras might also try to lure the Democratic Left party into joining a coalition in order to build a bigger majority in Parliament.
More than a quarter of a century on, Mr Ecevit is feared within his party (now named the Democratic Left) as a control freak who delegates little responsibility.
That is why Mr Yilmaz is not taken seriously when he predicts that his Motherland Party, together with Mr Ecevit's Democratic Left party, will win an overall majority in April.
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