Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece’s New Democracy party, will be sworn in today as premier of the country’s new coalition government, a New Democracy official told reporters in Athens.

President Karolos Papoulias will swear in Samaras after Samaras today visits him to brief him on the results of his mandate to form a government, said the official, who declined to be named.

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