Former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos will be Greece's new interim prime minister, according to media reports in the country.
The semi-state Athens News Agency released a profile of Mr Papademos, 64, calling him the "new prime minister-in-waiting" as an imminent announcement was expected from talks on a new unity government.
Mr Papademos earlier arrived at the presidential mansion, where the country's two top parties and a smaller nationalist party were in meeting with President Carolos Papoulias to agree on a new cabinet.
However talks between Greek party representatives and Mr Papademos ended this evening with no announcement on the composition of a new cabinet, an official from the outgoing government said.
Greece's new coalition government is slated to be sworn in on at 12pm Irish time tomorrow.
Officials from socialist PASOK, conservative New Democracy and far right LAOS party took part in the meeting.
However the representatives left the prime minister's office, where Mr Papademos hosted the negotiations, with no announcements on cabinet positions.
It was not clear when an official announcement would be made.
Talks aimed at forming a new unity government have dragged on for four days amid increasing impatience from Greece's European peers and the International Monetary Fund.
The new government faces a slew of challenges, starting with the ratification of a crucial EU bailout deal that will unlock badly-needed loans.
It must also organise early elections to pull the country out of political deadlock but is bound by creditor agreements to continue an unpopular austerity policy that has plunged Greece into a deep recession.
