Greek prime minister calls snap election

Athens (CNN) -- Greece will hold parliamentary elections May 6, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos announced Wednesday.

His televised announcement came after he met with President Karolos Papoulias to ask him to dissolve the current parliament.

Papademos said the past five months had shown that Greece could make the difficult decisions needed to confront its debt crisis and ensure a better future.

The new government, once elected, would have a difficult task ahead of it, he said, as he called for everyone to work together.

Dissolving parliament does not mean dissolving the government, as a number of significant decisions must be made by May 6, Papademos said. Read More

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