Greece 2012

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Results based on recent polling:



Thanks to the 19 Nazi seats, no possible grouping has a majority.

What kind of party is AN.EL. ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Greeks

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Essentially, Greece has some pretty strict time limits for coalition negotiations that could lead to a very intense nine/ten days, and if ND (assuming they're the largest party, o/c) can't manage to form a government in 72 hours, then the parties that have the second and third most seats suddenly become much more important (and there's like six different parties those could be).

Thank God, if there's anything Greece doesn't need it's to become another Belgium. I wish more countries had this rule. Allowing coalition negociations for months is not good for anyone.

Ironically, the Belgian economy seemed to trundle along pretty well during the period when there was no government.

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What is dimiourga xana ?

Nazis

Goddamnit, another nazi party ? *__*

Merkel fanboys who want to ban public demonstrations and sound as if they'd rather like to ban the KKE.

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Merkel fanboys

LOL masochists LOL

Not necessarily masochists. There are plenty of enthusiasts for swingeing austerity who believe that swingeing austerity will principally affect others and not themselves.

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Not sure if this is old news, disinformation, or both, but from today's Irish Times:

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Greece's Euro victory will push SYRIZA over the line.

I hope you're right.  Imagine what it'll be like if they face Germany in the quarterfinal five days from now (since it's officially Sunday now where I am...yay).  Eesh.  

The match will be replayed as many times as needed until the right result is produced.

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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

Good old PASOK, pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

Define "victory".

Map-based visualisation of results here.