Greece's chief negotiator in aid talks with international creditors, Euclid Tsakalotos, is the government's top candidate to become finance minister following the resignation on Monday of Yanis Varoufakis, a senior government official said.
Varoufakis' successor is due to be named after a meeting of political leaders that got under way at 10 am. (0700 GMT).
Image: French Finance Minister Michel Sapin (centre) speaks with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (left) and Chief Economics Spokesman of the Government of Greece Euclid Tsakalotos (right) prior to a Eurozone finance ministers emergency meeting in Brussels, Belgium, June 24, 2015. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters
