Showing posts with label Syriza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syriza. Show all posts
Sunday, September 20, 2015

With 99% of the vote counted in Greece, Syriza retakes power as before while Popular Unity at 2.86% of the vote gets NOTHING

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Alexis Tsipras and Syriza consolidate power in Greece without the anti-austerity rebels

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At this hour with 75% of the vote counted, Alexis Tsipras and Syriza are set to return to power and head the Greek government for the ne...
Friday, September 11, 2015

With nine days to go before Greek elections, Syriza recaptures the lead in the latest ProRata poll

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The latest Greek election poll result appears here today, showing left wing Syriza back on top with 28.5% of the vote and center right ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Syriza youth wing declines to support Alexis Tsipras and Syriza in upcoming election

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That could well signal it's already curtains for Syriza with less than three weeks to go to new elections. From the story here at...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Syriza goes from "hope is coming" to "only ahead" just as Obama went from "hope" to "forward"

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Is this a shameless rip-off of a 2011 hit by Greek pop star Demy  or what? The vote of the young and the dumb, as always, is key to ...
Friday, August 28, 2015

The biggest bloc of voters is undecided in the upcoming September Greek election according to a new poll

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Reuters reports here : Syriza was supported by 23 percent of those polled, with the conservative New Democracy party second on 19.5 ...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Yanis Varoufakis calls far left party Popular Unity's plan for Grexit and a return to the drachma "isolationist"

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In Greece the left calls the left isolationist. In America the right calls the right isolationist. Maybe the isolationism is whe...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

In Greece the popular PM Alexis Tsipras resigned last week in order to consolidate his power

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Alexis Tsipras, Greece's hope peddler Most reports put the resignation of Alexis Tsipras last week down to an act of desperation d...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has resigned today

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Blow by blow coverage is provided in the UK by the Telegraph here and the Guardian here . The next two largest political parties have...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Greeks pass third draconian austerity/bailout package 222 to 64 with 11 abstentions

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Looks like Alexis Tsipras' Syriza MPs defected in a big way: 32 No votes this time with 11 abstentions and 1 absent. This could prove ...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Leonid Bershidsky has it exactly backwards: Syriza's Left Platform turns out to be Greece's true conservative party, they just don't realize it

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Here  right out of the gate, and the rest of it is also quite as silly, not in the least because it asks the EuroGroup to devise the mecha...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Euro Group creditors made a bundle off Greece's problems in 2014: 13 billion EUR

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Moody's on Greece indicated today that the debt/GDP burden was already 177% before Syriza was even elected in 2015, but one man'...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Greece left in a permanent debt trap under neo-colonial rule after historic weekend showdown in Brussels

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, here : The crushed Syriza leader [Alexis Tsipras] must sell a settlement that leaves Greece in a permanent de...

Alexis Tsipras sought out the help of Yanis Varoufakis starting in 2010, but never fully agreed with him

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Varoufakis' plan, as outlined here in an interview in The New Statesman, was never embraced by Syriza as it needed to be to have even...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

So what Bernard-Henri Levy and the EU really want is to tax the bejeebers out of Greek capital and the Greek church

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BHL with celebrated child rapist Venting his deconstructionist spleen, here : Mr. Tsipras might defend his approach to the referen...