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Greek election: who are Independent Greeks?
Who are the Independent Greeks, the right-wing party that will form a coalition government in Greece with Syriza?
Greece had a new government on Monday after Syriza, Greece's radical leftist party, formed an unlikely alliance with a right-wing party.
While Syriza scored a historic victory in Greece's election, it fell short of winning an outright majority in the 300-seat parliament, gaining 149 seats.
That compelled the party's leader, Alexis Tsipras, to do a deal with the Independent Greeks party, which said it would back the 40-year-old former Communist as the country's new prime minister.
The surprise alliance between the two parties alarmed the markets and triggered a loss of nearly four per cent on the Athens Stock Exchange.
They are strange bed fellows and their differences could herald a highly unstable new phase in Greece's turbulent politics as Mr Tsipras embarks on bruising negotiations with the EU and IMF over the country's massive debt and deeply unpopular austerity regime.
Like Syriza, the Independent Greeks are stridently opposed to the "troika" of international creditors who have lent the country €240 billion (£180 bn), saying that Greece simply cannot pay the money back.
But beyond that, they have little in common with Syriza, raising fears of even more uncertainty in a country battered by five years of recession and political conflict.
Alexis Tsipras addresses party supporters in front of the Athens University after the announcement of the winning result
While Syriza is a coalition of socialists, Marxists, Maoists and Communists, the Independent Greeks are a conservative, nationalist party.
They were formed in 2012 by a breakaway group of rebels from New Democracy, the conservative party of Antonis Samaras, the outgoing prime minister.
They also have close links to the Greek Orthodox Church, further putting them at odds with Mr Tsipras, who is an atheist.
Independent Greeks are led by Panos Kammenos, a former deputy shipping minister.
He says the bail-out by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund has reduced Greece to the status of a debt colony.
"We will never go as beggars on our knees to (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel, we will go standing tall as Greeks do. The Greek people are fighting united to restore national sovereignty and dignity," he said in a campaign speech last week.
He wants to wipe out a large part of Greece's debt, which is equivalent to 175 per cent of the country's gross domestic product.
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Mr Kammenos, 49, has insisted his party can act as a "safety valve" for Greece as it heads for a showdown with Brussels and Berlin.
Regarded as a conspiracy theorist by his opponents, he has said that Greece is being ruined by what he calls a "neoliberal avalanche".
Syriza supporters celebrate
Greece had been forced to swallow deeply unpopular economic reforms and belt-tightening by "money lenders from abroad".
In an impassioned speech in 2012, shortly after forming his party, Mr Kammenos said the country had been turned into a "laboratory animal" in an austerity experiment conducted by the EU and the IMF.
"They have chosen the wrong laboratory animal for their experiment. They used the public debt as a means of control," he said.
Mr Kammenos was recently accused of being anti-Semitic. Last month he claimed that Greek Jews paid fewer taxes than other citizens and that they were given preferential treatment.
His remarks were condemned by the Board of Jewish Communities in Greece as a "serious anti-Semitic act". The claims were dismissed by a Greek government official as "conspiracy theories, lies and slander" drawn from "the dark side of the internet".