Sir Robert Salisbury said he found the current scheme was serving the needs of the institutions - keeping open relatively expensive schools.

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The leftist Syriza Party of Greece, which had characterized austerity policies of the current government as serving the interest of bankers, oligarchs and plutocrats at the expense of ordinary Greeks ended up leap-frogging Pasok for second place.

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Serving editors, current MPs or government ministers would be excluded.

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