The main opposition New Democracy party of Greece has set December 13 as the deadline for its party elections following the technical problems that led to their failure to elect a leader on November 22. Within the party there is international friction in a blame game considering who to blame after the IT company hired to organize the election process botched up the job on Sunday.

Former caretaker conservative leader Evangelos Meimarakis stepped down from his role as interim chief a day after the failed elections. On Wednesday he attacked Nikos Toutsias, an aid to former prime minister Antonis Samaras. Meimarakis says that Athanasios Klonaris, who headed the IT group that were unable to meet the demands of the election process, had been vouched for by the former conservative head. A rift is evident between Samaras and Meimarakis, though the former did not put more oil to the fire and refrained from making a public comment, prefering instead to recommend “unity and sobriety.”

Meimarakis has also indicated his intent to take legal action against Infosolutions, the IT company that was to have set up the technical process on November 22.  Sources state that the problems were caused not by the group’s logismic, but difficulty in wireless connections to the central IT system via tablets available at the electoral centers. For this reason, telecoms provider OTE has been called in to ensure the stability of the next election attempt scheduled for December 13.