Greece: Syriza wins, conservative New Democracy concedes

[shenmue]

BBC story here

From the article:

Greece's conservative New Democracy party has admitted defeat to Alexis Tsipras's left-wing Syriza in the nation's fifth election in six years.

The concession came as Syriza was given a lead of 35% to New Democracy's 28%, with 21% of votes counted, interior ministry data showed.

This would not give Syriza an absolute majority, and the party would need partners to form a government.

[PoliticAverse]

1. More of the same for Greece. n/t

[yeoman6987]

2. I wish them luck!

I think it's going to be quite a few interesting few years for Greece.

[truebluegreen]

3. Good.

So it will take at least one more election before the EU has the government it wants in Greece.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Yay! K&R

[malaise]

5. Again!

Great news

[potone]

6. This was a very strange election.

Syriza, the self-named "radical left" won, and Golden Dawn, the Nazi party, came in third. The largest percentage in modern Greece's history didn't bother to vote (almost 45%) despite the fact that voting is required by law in Greece. Most people have simply decided that it doesn't really matter who wins since everything is controlled by Brussels anyway. Syriza won because they don't have a history of corruption. But they are going to have a very hard time implementing the third memorandum, which is a program for economic and political subjugation with no chance of recovery. We'll see how long this government lasts once they try to enforce the terms of the memorandum. Dark days lie ahead. As a philhellene, this breaks my heart.