"barbaric austerity measures"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/09/us-greece-idUSBRE8440DG20120509

New Greek poll looms as government efforts founder

By George Georgiopoulos and Karolina Tagaris

ATHENS | Wed May 9, 2012 1:36pm EDT

"New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said in a televised statement that he hoped Tsipras would "come to his senses" before they met for coalition talks later on Wednesday.

Tsipras, riding a wave of public disgust with economic hardship in last Sunday's election, has demanded that Samaras and socialist PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos tear up their 130-billion euro bailout deal with the EU and IMF."