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Venizelos indicated Wednesday he will step down from his post as finance minister when he is formally elected. "I can't continue playing a double role," he told private Alpha television. "Once I take over and as soon as I take over the duties of leader of the largest party in parliament, I must dedicate myself to those duties." PASOK won a landslide victory in 2009 general elections, but party defections and public anger over austerity measures prompted it to form an interim coalition government with the rival conservatives last November. Recent opinion polls have seen its support sink to as low as 11 percent, with general elections expected in late April. ___ Online Social Contract Party:
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