The Extreme-Left wins in Greece

[Statistikhengst]

Hochrechnung in Griechenland Syriza ist klarer Wahlsieger tagesschau.de

Ales Tsipras (SYRIZA): 36.5%
Antonis Samaras (ND): 27.7% - he was the incumbent
Nikolaos Michaloliakos (Golden Dawn Party): 6.3% (extreme Right-Wing party)
Stavros Theodorakis (Po Tomaki): 5.9% (pro european Party)
Evangelos Venizelos (Socialist): 4.8%
all other parties together: 18.8%

Current margin: Tsipras (SYRIZA) +8.8%

This is a parliamentary election, so Tsipras' Party will need to try to get an outright majority of seats in the Hellenic Parliament, otherwise, it will have to form a coalition government.

The party of Austerity was defeated.
But the party that is most Europe-friendly also did badly.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Fuck Greece. Let them commit suicide. Just make sure they keep their hands off Western wallets while they're in the process.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Hochrechnung in Griechenland Syriza ist klarer Wahlsieger tagesschau.de

Ales Tsipras (SYRIZA): 36.5%
Antonis Samaras (ND): 27.7% - he was the incumbent
Nikolaos Michaloliakos (Golden Dawn Party): 6.3% (extreme Right-Wing party)
Stavros Theodorakis (Po Tomaki): 5.9% (pro european Party)
Evangelos Venizelos (Socialist): 4.8%
all other parties together: 18.8%

Current margin: Tsipras (SYRIZA) +8.8%

This is a parliamentary election, so Tsipras' Party will need to try to get an outright majority of seats in the Hellenic Parliament, otherwise, it will have to form a coalition government.

The party of Austerity was defeated.
But the party that is most Europe-friendly also did badly.

BRILLIANT!

I say go with what has never worked!

 

[Iceweasel]

It will be entertaining to watch them circle the drain.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Hochrechnung in Griechenland Syriza ist klarer Wahlsieger tagesschau.de

Ales Tsipras (SYRIZA): 36.5%
Antonis Samaras (ND): 27.7% - he was the incumbent
Nikolaos Michaloliakos (Golden Dawn Party): 6.3% (extreme Right-Wing party)
Stavros Theodorakis (Po Tomaki): 5.9% (pro european Party)
Evangelos Venizelos (Socialist): 4.8%
all other parties together: 18.8%

Current margin: Tsipras (SYRIZA) +8.8%

This is a parliamentary election, so Tsipras' Party will need to try to get an outright majority of seats in the Hellenic Parliament, otherwise, it will have to form a coalition government.

The party of Austerity was defeated.
But the party that is most Europe-friendly also did badly.

do you think Germany will bail them out, again, when the time comes?

It took a lot of coaxing last time and greece didn't learn their lesson.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Honestly, I don't know. I am not even sure if it was a good idea the first three times.

But again, Greece's GDP is a drop in the bucket compared to the EU as a whole.

I've been to Hellas. Nice place. Hot as Hell in the summer.

 

[william the wie]

The new greatest show on Earth.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Pourquoi?

 

[Two Thumbs]

Honestly, I don't know. I am not even sure if it was a good idea the first three times.

But again, Greece's GDP is a drop in the bucket compared to the EU as a whole.

I've been to Hellas. Nice place. Hot as Hell in the summer.

well if it's a drop in the bucket, there's no reason to and to have bailed them out

leftist refuse to learn that they are creating vast amounts of harm with all their "free money" ideas

 

[Politico]

Fuck Greece. Let them commit suicide. Just make sure they keep their hands off Western wallets while they're in the process.

But they won't. They'll ask for another bailout after their next one runs out.

 

[Bleipriester]

The left wing Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) and the right wing ANEL (Independent Greeks) agreed to form a coalition after the Syiza`s election victory. Hopefully, the anti-austerity program of the coalition will not cause Greece to implode.
BBC News - Syriza and Independent Greeks agree Greece coalition

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Paul Krugman:Ending Greece’s Nightmare
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the left-wing Syriza coalition, is about to become prime minister of Greece. He will be the first European leader elected on an explicit promise to challenge the austerity policies that have prevailed since 2010. And there will, of course, be many people warning him to abandon that promise, to behave “responsibly.”

So how has that responsibility thing worked out so far?

To understand the political earthquake in Greece, it helps to look at Greece’s May 2010 “standby arrangement” with the International Monetary Fund, under which the so-called troika — the I.M.F., the European Central Bank and the European Commission — extended loans to the country in return for a combination of austerity and reform. It’s a remarkable document, in the worst way. The troika, while pretending to be hardheaded and realistic, was peddling an economic fantasy. And the Greek people have been paying the price for those elite delusions.


You see, the economic projections that accompanied the standby arrangement assumed that Greece could impose harsh austerity with little effect on growth and employment. Greece was already in recession when the deal was reached, but the projections assumed that this downturn would end soon — that there would be only a small contraction in 2011, and that by 2012 Greece would be recovering. Unemployment, the projections conceded, would rise substantially, from 9.4 percent in 2009 to almost 15 percent in 2012, but would then begin coming down fairly quickly.

(snip)
So now that Mr. Tsipras has won, and won big, European officials would be well advised to skip the lectures calling on him to act responsibly and to go along with their program. The fact is they have no credibility; the program they imposed on Greece never made sense. It had no chance of working.


more at link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/opinion/paul-krugman-ending-greeces-nightmare.html?ref=opinion

 

[Nyvin]

They won 150 seats, 1 seat short of the 151 absolute majority. They've formed a coalition with the independent greek party though, which gives them 163 seats total.

 

[Dana7360]

Now maybe the nation can start recovering from the crash.

They've been choked with austerity for all this time and things have not gotten better.

Lets hope that the government of Greece will work to bring their nation back from the horrible austerity that's been choking them and holding them back from recovery.

Greece's Syriza To Form Government After Election Victory

 

[jwoodie]

Now maybe the nation can start recovering from the crash.

They've been choked with austerity for all this time and things have not gotten better.

Lets hope that the government of Greece will work to bring their nation back from the horrible austerity that's been choking them and holding them back from recovery.

Greece's Syriza To Form Government After Election Victory

How did they get there in the first place?

 

[Statistikhengst]

Already have a thread going in the elections section about this. Wanna merge??

 

[deltex1]

Now maybe the nation can start recovering from the crash.

They've been choked with austerity for all this time and things have not gotten better.

Lets hope that the government of Greece will work to bring their nation back from the horrible austerity that's been choking them and holding them back from recovery.

Greece's Syriza To Form Government After Election Victory

Whenever I have been "choked with austerity" my bank account has surged.

 

[The Rabbi]

Now maybe the nation can start recovering from the crash.

They've been choked with austerity for all this time and things have not gotten better.

Lets hope that the government of Greece will work to bring their nation back from the horrible austerity that's been choking them and holding them back from recovery.

Greece's Syriza To Form Government After Election Victory

Liberal? Syriza is filled with communists. Their program is to fuck the other Europeans who have loaned them money over the past 10 years. It is a recipe for disaster and the stupid Greeks bought into it. Forty years of socialism have made them want someone to pay their bills. If not their government, then the European Union. If not them, then the Germans.
Greece will default on its debt and be kicked out of the Euro zone in 6 months. And of course their economy will not recover. Austerity? They should try it sometime.

 

[deltex1]

As they say...beware of Greeks bearing gifts....

 

[Dana7360]

Already have a thread going in the elections section about this. Wanna merge??

I know there's a thread about the election and it was created before the outcome.

If there's a thread about the outcome, yes, this thread should be merged with it.

If that thread is the one before the outcome, no, it shouldn't be merged because the conversation is different now that we know the outcome.