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Greece's Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras? meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu in December 2014 marks an important beginning in bilateral relations, Syriza?s foreign relations representative has said.

In the final days of election campaigning, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his campaign team are to redouble efforts to boost languishing morale among conservative supporters while also trying to win round undecided voters.

With opinion polls suggesting that SYRIZA?s lead over New Democracy is growing, leftist leader Alexis Tsipras urged voters to give him the extra backing needed to gain a parliamentary majority in Sunday?s elections.

By Alexis Papachelas

Sunday?s election will be decisive for Greece.

Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos is ?absolutely ready? to govern with SYRIZA if the leftist party wins Sunday?s elections, he said during a news conference on Wednesday.

By Renee Maltezou & Lefteris Papadimas

Greece's Socialist PASOK party could support a government led by the radical leftist SYRIZA party as part of a wider pro-euro alliance to steer the country out of its bailout program, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos told Reuters.

With just a few days to go before critical snap elections, the two main parties are battling for undecided voters and the center ground, with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras expected to emphasize the risks of a SYRIZA government in campaign speeches Wednesday.

To Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis is on Wednesday expected to say that he will not consider working with SYRIZA after the elections unless the leftists agree to conclude the pending troika review before launching any discussion with Greece?s lenders about debt relief.

One of SYRIZA?s key economic policy makers, Yiannis Dragasakis, said Tuesday that his party recognizes Greece?s loan agreements and public debt but that it is seeking adjustments to both.

?We recognize that the country is bound by loan agreements but we want to review them,? he said at an Economist conference in Athens.

Greece is preparing for the parliamentary elections on Sunday, January 25, which were triggered by lawmakers' failure to elect a head of state. What follows is a brief overview of the main contenders' promises and aspirations.