Greece 2012

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insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.   thats what we may have going on here.  in 2 ways really:  people wanting a ND-PASOK govt and just have an election even.  how many elections can greece have even?   if it remains stalemate i would imagine thats when the military steps in..

If I was buying into this whole "Merkel running the show" rhetoric, i'd just say that she wouldn't let it happen so as to avoid poor stereotypes.

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Just reading that late-deciders chose Tsipras over Samaras 30-25 as preferred Prime Minister. Explains a lot.

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Quite a damning result for democracy if the anti-bailout parties (who've probably won the most votes collectively) are pipped-to-the-post because of the 50-seat bonus.

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Map's updated on the government's site.

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PASOK actually leading somewhere! Eastern Crete.

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New Democracy could form a coalition with Pasok, but from this tweet from Radiobubble's Spyros Gkelis suggests might not happen.

PASOK officially states that won't participate in any government without SYRIZA in it #Greece2012 #rbnews

SYRIZA-PASOK-ANEL-DIMAR only gets them to 141, so no.

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Why doesn't PASOK just forma  coalition with SYRIZA?

They'd only have like 100 seats and you need 151 for a majority.

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KKE heading for the worst result in it's history. lol.

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ND spokesperson saying there's gonna ask Syriza for a grand coalition. No chance.

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Samaras received a mandate from the president to form a coalition, and a New Democracy source said the party expected to clinch a deal on Tuesday after Samaras met the third-placed PASOK Socialists and the small Democratic Left group.

Interesting that DIMAR's even considering it...

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Samaras to be sworn in later today.

It's funny 'cos he's in over his head.

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What's with DIMAR joining? Didn't they reject this exact coalition less then a month ago?

Yeah, but now they don't want a 3rd election.

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I believe that should there be a third election, Dimar voters would "vote utile" for Syriza, at least a number of them, in order to get Syriza the majority premium of 50 seats. So Dimar has their last shot at being in charge with a nice parliamentary group...

Yeah, let's just ignore the whole probability of Greece finally falling off the cliff, dragging Europe down with it if there was a third election.