Greece’s embattled prime minister Antonis Samaras has offered a compromise to ensure presidential elections go smoothly and snap polls are averted in the imminent future. Pleading with MPs to “listen to their conscience,” the leader took the unprecedented step of saying he would be open to early elections in 2015 if the 300-seat parliament could agree to back the government’s candidate, Stavros Dimas, as head of state. The government’s four-year term ends in mid-2016. “The Greek people do not want early elections,” Samaras said on Sunday in an unscheduled televised address. “And they are right. The political ... (full story)