Greece appears headed toward a new round of elections with the ongoing failure of rival political parties to form a government coalition. The impasse centers on an international bailout that offers Greece billions in loans in return for harsh austerity measures gutting the public sector. At a rally on Sunday, the head of Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left party, Alexis Tsipras, renewed his vow to refuse any coalition that agrees to the bailout terms.

Alexis Tsipras: “We will take our responsibilities, and the biggest responsibility we have to the people is for the people not to lose their hope. The biggest responsibility we have is not to appear that we are backtracking on what we said before the elections and what we do after the elections. And we won’t.”