Greeks riot as PM fights for savings plan

GREEK Prime Minister George Papandreou has offered to step down to make way for a national unity government, provided it supports European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout plans, Greek state sources said yesterday.

But a source in the conservative New Democracy party said they would only take part in a new unity government if it renegotiated the bailout and Papandreou resigned.

“We told the prime minister... we would accept a government of wider co-operation on two conditions: that Papandreou is not the prime minister, and that its target will be the renegotiation of the terms of the [EU/IMF] memorandum and the midterm fiscal plan,” the source said.