AlHijjah 06, 1436, September 20, 2015, SPA -- The head of the small right-wing Independent Greeks party, Panos Kammenos, says his party will join Greek election winner Syriza head Alexis Tsipras in forming a coalition government, according to AP. With 51 percent of Sunday's vote counted, Syriza had 35.5 percent, with the conservative New Democracy second with 28.1 percent. The Independent Greeks were in seventh place with 3.7 percent, just above the 3 percent threshold needed to enter parliament. Kammenos said "I am in contact with Alexis Tsipras ... our new effort begins tomorrow (Monday)." The results give Syriza 145 seats in the 300-member parliament, and 10 for the Independent Greeks, meaning the two parties can form a government with a slim majority of five seats. Kammenos' party was Syriza's junior coalition partner in the short-lived seven-month government that was elected last January on an anti-bailout platform, but with a much larger parliamentary majority. Tsipras resigned last month, triggering elections after facing a rebellion within Syriza over his policy U-turn in accepting a painful third bailout
