ATHENS: A breakaway eurosceptic faction of Greece’s Syriza party was to attempt to form a government on Monday as the country headed for a likely September 20 snap ballot.

The ex-Syriza rebels, who call themselves the Popular Unity party after the victorious 1970 Chilean alliance of Salvador Allende, are to receive a mandate from President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

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