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Greek Exit Poll expected at 5pm (official) RESULT...

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    #32
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    The reaction from Syriza seems to have a good measure of relief. I'm not surprised given their promises - although they had been pulling back on the rhetoric over the past few days.


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    Manco
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    Now for the Greek center to collapse as it takes the hit for the continuing economic failure of austerity and the inevitable Greek exit from the Eurozone.

    Also, here's a good site. The working class/rural divide seems to echo our recent referendum, which I guess makes Crete the Greece of Donegal! http://www.igraphics.gr/en/multimedia/2012/06/elections2012b


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    #34
    meglome
    Registered Users Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    Manco wrote: »
    Now for the Greek center to collapse as it takes the hit for the continuing economic failure of austerity and the inevitable Greek exit from the Eurozone.

    Also, here's a good site. The working class/rural divide seems to echo our recent referendum, which I guess makes Crete the Greece of Donegal! http://www.igraphics.gr/en/multimedia/2012/06/elections2012b

    Unless I'm mistaken there were only three constituencies in Ireland that recorded a no majority. And Donegal can be guaranteed to vote no to anything the government wants at this point. So not really seeing the correlation.


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    LostinKildare
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭LostinKildare


    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    ND and Pasok would have a solid 22 seat majority on those numbers.

    I think it's 151 that's required to form a govt -- if those projected numbers hold, then ND and Pasok together squeak in at 161.

    Too weak to implement more austerity, especially with a now very strong Syriza leading the opposition. If they do form a ND/Pasok govt, how long do you think it'll last?


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    OS119
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    LostinKildare wrote: »
    ...If they do form a ND/Pasok govt, how long do you think it'll last?

    the German foreign minister is apparrently making noises about fiddling with the terms of the bailout to make life a bit easier for whatever Greek government emerges from this election - though i also understood that he'd suggested putting back the next tranche of money to ensure that the money was only paid once a government was in place, rather than paying now, only to find that no government came to power - or that despite ND coming first, they weren't able to form a viable coalition and SYRIZA helpfully stepping into the breech...

    its not over - and SYRIZA doing so well shows the non-SYRIZA politicians that theres votes to be won by being delusional.


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    hatrickpatrick
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    This is depressing, but not entirely unexpected. Fear is an incredibly powerful emotion.


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    #38
    Eggy Baby!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Eggy Baby!


    Personally I see it as no bad thing a fascist party getting seats. No worse than a communist party anyway. It opens the area up to potentially greater free speech and self-examination through the combating of extant ideas. Not that a communist or fascist government would be a good thing - no.. anything but.

    Not to mention it gives the politicians one hell of a wake up call!


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