Angela Merkel has warned Greece it cannot renegotiate its bailout as the nation prepares to vote in tomorrow's crunch elections that threaten the future of the eurozone and spell dire consequences for the UK.
Athens will not be allowed to dodge its austerity agreement and "lead everyone else through the arena by the nose ring," the German Chancellor said.
European leaders fear the poll, a re-run of a vote held six weeks ago that failed to return a government, could see Greece crash out of the single currency if anti-austerity party Syriza wins.
Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras has insisted that he could scrap Greece's bailout commitments while keeping the country in the eurozone.
Aged only 37, Tsipras is one of the youngest politicians in the country, and one of the most popular. He is the icon of the Greek anti-austerity movement, uniting the frustrated, the desperate, the poor and the outraged together to try to turn the country around through means other than budget cuts.
A Greek exit from the euro could lead to contagion across the eurozone
Unofficial polls put it level with the conservative New Democracy Party, which has told voters they face a choice between keeping the euro and returning to the drachma.
David Cameron, Mrs Merkel and other key EU figures pledged to take the "necessary action" needed to secure global economic stability in a video conference call setting the groundwork to next week's G20 meeting of leading economies in Mexico.
The Greek poll is viewed as such a potential flashpoint in the eurozone's future, the German Chancellor, French President Francois Hollande and Italian premier Mario Monti are expected to delay their travel to Los Cabos until Monday to be in place to deal with the immediate aftermath of the results.
Mr Cameron, who will be on a flight to Los Cabos, will be in touch with London via satellite phone.
Supporters of Greek Communist party wave flags during an election rally in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki
Mrs Merkel said: "We will have to speak to any government. I can only warn everyone against leaving the currency union. The internal cohesion of the euro zone would be in danger."
Central banks, including the Bank of England, Bank of Japan and US Federal Reserve, are expected to launch emergency support measures to cushion the blow of an implosion in the eurozone.
Earlier this week, Chancellor George Osborne warned Britain faces dire consequences if Greece leaves the eurozone without an "ambitious" plan to deal with the fallout.
But former Prime Minister Gordon Brown claimed a "chaotic" exit was becoming more likely regardless of the outcome of the tomorrow's poll.
That would trigger a deep and long recession in the eurozone and possibly beyond, experts predict.
It would fuel a run on the banks with Greeks likely to want to avoid having their euros converted to drachma or their savings frozen.
The same could happen to banks in countries which have lent heavily to Greece, such as France, triggering a domino effect known as contagion, which could spread to banks in non-eurozone countries, including the UK.