PASOK Socialist party leader Evangelos Venizelos (C) gestures as he leaves the Prime Minister's office after a meeting in Athens June 24, 2013. REUTERS/John Kolesidis
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's once-mighty socialist PASOK party will team up with a new centre-left group to contest European Parliament elections in May rather than run alone, after its support was decimated by the country's debt crisis.
The party, a junior partner in the coalition government led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been fighting to survive as a political force since backing austerity cuts and is hoping the new alliance will help revive its fortunes.
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