Greece prepares for crucial election – in pictures

A family beg on the street in Athens Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Supporters of Evangelos Venizelos, the leader of the social democratic party Pasok, wait to hear him speak at a rally in Athens Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Venizelos addresses his supporters in Athens Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images Well-to-do middle-class Greeks come out to support the centre-right neo-liberal party Recreate Greece in their last rally before the election Photograph: Andy Hall for the Guardian Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, is surrounded by supporters during a pre-election rally in Patras Square Photograph: Menelaos Mich/Demotix via Corbis The leader of the Democratic Left party, Fotis Kouvelis, centre, talks to supporters after the party's main pre-election rally in Athens Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/EPA Passengers wait for an underground train in the early morning of 14 June in Athens. The Greek electorate are due to go to the polls in a re-run of the general election on 17 June after no combination of political parties was able to form a coalition government Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Homeless people sleep on the ground at the edge of a car park in Piraeus Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Taxi drivers play a game of backgammon as they wait for fares at a rank in Piraeus, the port of Athens Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Police officers stand next to Greek municipal workers as they protest against austerity measures in front of the finance ministry in central Athens Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images Passengers wait on the platform of Piraeus station Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images A woman walks past a closed shop plastered with election campaign posters for the Democratic Left party and Syriza in central Athens Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters