Emergency coalition talks in Greece will continue tomorrow in a bid to avert a repeat ballot after inconclusive elections last weekend, state TV NET said.
President Carolos Papoulias will again bring together the top three parties in last Sunday's poll - the conservatives, socialists and radical leftists - and a moderate leftist party, in talks starting at 1630 GMT, NET said.
However, reports said that the radical leftist Syriza party, which wants to reject Greece's loan agreement with the EU and the IMF, will not attend the follow-up talks.
Discussions today had failed to deliver a breakthrough.
If a cabinet cannot be formed by Thursday, when parliament convenes, new elections will have to be called in June.
Mired in a five-year recession and struggling to apply reforms promised in return for EU-IMF funds, Greece can ill-afford political paralysis.
After today's meetings, some of the leaders said Papoulias had produced a letter from outgoing prime minister Lucas Papademos on the state of the Greek economy. He has however declined to divulge the contents of the letter publicly.
According to local media, the state only has enough cash to pay salaries and pensions until late June. Greece's European peers have threatened to cut off further loans if promised reforms stall.
International creditors have warned that no new payments under the latest €130 billion bailout will be made if Greece fails to deliver structural reforms required to put the economy back on track after decades of overspending by the state.
