Exactly one year after the last general elections in Greece, a crucial meeting between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his centre-Left partners on Monday evening aiming to diffuse tensions over his shock decision to shut down the state broadcaster ERT last week ended inconclusive.

A new meeting is to be held on Wednesday, socialist PASOK party leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left party chief Fotis Kouvelis said in statements to the media after the talks.

Samaras' sudden decision to close ERT last Tuesday, in order to reform it on reduced staff by September as part of the three-year austerity and reform program to address the Greek debt crisis, ignited mass protests and the fierce reactions of his partners who strongly opposed the step and criticized him with unilateral moves, raising the prospect of imminent snap elections or a cabinet reshuffle in the best case.

"No government can operate against the parliament's majority. This is what happened in ERT's case..The country needs real reforms, not contradictory steps," Venizelos said after the meeting.

He hinted that a government reshuffle and an update of the framework agreement of collaboration clinched among the partners of the ruling coalition last year will come soon.

"We insist that ERT should resume broadcasting immediately. ERT's issue highlighted the need for closer cooperation among the three parties," Kouvelis added.

A series of compromise alternative solutions were discussed during Monday's meeting, according to sources.

In regards to ERT, Samaras is said to have proposed the immediate creation of a cross party committee to monitor the hiring of a limited number of personnel in the new broadcaster, which is expected to be well below the 2,700 sacked employees.

The new broadcaster could begin temporary transmissions within a few days, according to Samaras' proposal, as a transitional period until the formation of the new national broadcaster.

In addition, the Premier suggested a cabinet reshuffle in early July and a revision of the coalition's program agreement, according to sources.

Before Monday's meeting, the Premier did not seem to accept his partners' calls to withdraw the ministerial decree over ERT's closure and keep it in full operation during the restructuring.

Samaras had accused his coalition partners of blocking the necessary reforms, including the pledged cut of thousands of jobs in the public sector, starting this summer, to keep the Greek stability and growth program on track and the flow of further vital international bailout loans steady in order to exit the crisis.

The three coalition partners have now until Wednesday to also reflect on Greece's top administrative court ruling against the shutdown of ERT which was announced as they were still holding talks.

The Council of State decided that ERT should remain open during the restructuring period until the creation of its leaner substitute later this summer, as the Premier had planned.

The ruling in favor of ERT's trade union which had turned to justice to overturn Samaras' decision means that the broadcaster's signal should be restored and the implementation of the ministerial decree which sealed the closure should be temporarily suspended, until a final verdict is issued in September, local analysts commented.

According to Greek national news agency AMNA reports, the state is due to submit an appeal on Tuesday for the suspension of the temporary verdict. "Your political time runs out. We will not allow you to take back democracy through a ministerial decree," main opposition Radical Left SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras said during a rally in Syntagma square, as the three coalition leaders were holding their critical meeting at the prime minister's office nearby.

Tsipras deemed the broadcaster's closure an attack on democracy, stressing that the main dilemma for Greece remains "democracy or memorandum", referring to the EU-IMF bailout program.

"A year after the elections we certify the same thing that Samaras was telling back then, that the road of the memorandum is catastrophic, that consists of a poison that destroys any society that wants to bounce back," Prokopis Mantopoulos, employee at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, told Xinhua during the rally.

"To overturn this situation people must come in the foreground. One of the choices is through social struggles and through participation to the procedure of the elections," he added.

The prospect of a third election round within a year has reignited fears of a replay of last year's political uncertainty which could derail ongoing efforts to tackle the acute economic crisis that brought the debt-ridden country to the brink of a chaotic default and possible exit from the euro zone.

European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders, who keep Greece afloat with multi-billion euro loans since 2010 in exchange for tough austerity and reform policies, add pressure for the swifter and full implementation of the measures at a period when the first positive signals of recovery are emerging after six years of deep recession.

According to opinion surveys published over the weekend, six out of ten Greeks oppose ERT's "sudden death", but also the idea of heading to polls.

According to the surveys, if elections were held today, the conservative New Democracy party of Samaras would run neck and neck with SYRIZA, with both far away from securing parliamentary majority, as happened last year, leading to new marathon efforts to form a coalition government.