Evangelis Venizelos is in talks with SYRIZA and ND today, after he gained the support on Thursday from Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis - a pro-European critical of the bailout, Kathimerini reports. Kouvelis, who strongly favours Greece remaining within the euro, won 6.1% of the vote, and his 19 parliamentary seats make him a king-maker for a coalition government. Kouvelis said "I propose the formation of an ecumenical government made up of trustworthy political figures that will reflect and respect the message from the elections. This government's mission, which will have a specific program and time frame that will last until the European elections of 2014, will be twofold: firstly, to keep the country in the European Union and euro and, secondly, to gradually disengage from the [EU-IMF] memorandum."

A PASOK-ND-Democratic Left administration would have a total of 168 seats, but there are fears that SYRIZA's growing popularity, along with opposition from the other parliamentary parties, all opposed to the EU-IMF memorandum, would make governing difficult. SYRIZA's initial reaction suggests that it is unlikely to join a unity government. If new elections were held, SYRIZA is likely to win more votes.  An opinion poll conducted by Marc for Alpha TV indicated on Thursday suggests that SYRIZA would come in first. It put SYRIZA in first place on 23.8%, followed by ND on 17.4, PASOK on 10.8, Independent Greeks on 8.7, KKE on 6, Chrysi Avgi on 4.9 and Democratic Left on 4.2.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras also seem to have softened his stance when he wrote to EU officials on Thursday arguing that the election result had taken away political legitimacy from the memorandum and that the terms of the agreement should be "re-examined", rather than rejected.