Greek voters on Sunday (6 May) punished the two ruling parties
responsible for the last EU bail-out and its austerity measures by
giving the radical left the second highest number of votes and allowing a
neo-Nazi party into the legislature for the first time.
Early official results after 10 percent of the votes were count show
that the centre-right New Democracy party has gained the most votes
(19.2%) but it is not enough to re-make the current ruling coalition
with the Social Democrats (Pasok). Instead, Syriza, a coalition of radical left parties (16.3%) opposing
the austerity rules of the €130 billion bail-out, but in favour for
Greece to stay in the eurozone, pushed Pasok into third place. The right-wing Independent Greeks, a splinter party from New Democracy
also openly against the bail-out, scored over ten percent.
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Vying with Syriza as the biggest news of the election is the score of
the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. It is to hold 21 seats in the parliament
after it convinced almost seven percent of the voters. The Communist Party and the Democratic Left - bolstered by defections
from Pasok - also scored above the five-percent threshold. They may be
drawn into a leftist government if Samaras fails to form a majority and
Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras is given the same task.
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