Socialists primed for comeback as Greece votes

ATHENS: Greeks voted yesterday in an election that the socialist opposition was expected to win due to discontent with the government's failure to crack down on corruption and its handling of the economic crisis.

The socialist PASOK is not certain of gathering an outright majority, however, raising the risk of weeks of political limbo when the Mediterranean country, seen as the euro zone's weakest link, must deal with an economy on the verge of recession.

Weakened by scandals and a fragile parliamentary majority, conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis called the snap poll in September, gambling his New Democracy party had a better chance of winning now than later in his four-year term.