| 1 | ATHENS, Greece (AP) " The head of Greece's main opposition party is meeting the country's president to return his mandate to form a government after failing to find coalition partners following the prime minister's resignation and call for early elections. |
| 2 | Evangelos Meimarakis, head of the conservative New Democracy party, returned the mandate Monday after the three-day limit. |
| 3 | It now passes to the third-largest party in Parliament, a new group formed by hardliners who split from the governing radical left Syriza party last week. |
| 4 | Neither party was expected to be able to form a government, and early elections are most likely to be held on Sept. |
| 5 | Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, just seven months into his four-year mandate, following a rebellion in his party over Greece's new bailout. |