Greece 2012

[TheParliamentarian]

from the guardian:

"News in from Helena Smith, our correspondent in Athens, on the latest polls being conducted on behalf of political parties ahead of the close of the ballot at 7pm local time (5pm BST).

I have just spoken to a senior cadre in the socialist Pasok party where polling results are being monitored on a two-hourly basis. "The next few hours are crucial as the rush to vote has only just begun among young people," he told me. "From now to the close of the election polling stations are likely to be packed."

Latest results, he said, show the conservative "pro-European" New Democracy party in the lead with 29% of the vote closely followed by the anti-bailout far-left Syriza party with 27%. Pasok is in third with 12%. The small European-oriented Democrat Left has around 6%. Support for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which was catapulted into parliament for the first time since the collapse of military rule in 1974, was also at 6%. Figures for the communist KKE party and anti-austerity Independent Greeks party were not available."

[TheParliamentarian]

First exit poll by Star Channel: ND 27-30, SYRIZA 26-29, PASOK 10-12, Ind Greeks 6-8, Golden Dawn 6-8, Dem Left 6-7, KKE 5-6 #Greece2012

#Greece 2012 Megatv poll: ND 27.5-30.5 Syriza 27.30 Pasok 10-12 IndGreeks 6-7.5

SYRIZA 28, ND 27.5, PASOK 13, Dem Left 7.5, Ind Greeks 7.5, GD 5.5, KKE 5.5 Skai TV opinion poll, not exit poll #Greece2012

[TheParliamentarian]

Pub Issue (opinion poll): Syriza 31-25, ND 30-25, Pasok 15-11, IndGreeks 9-6, DemLeft 9-6, KKE 7-4, GolDawn 7-4, Recreation 3-1

[TheParliamentarian]

neither does   athens news.gr   im assuming they crashed cause it was up earlier.  hope someone finds one that works

[TheParliamentarian]

Golden Dawn, Greece's far-right party, quoted by Athens News: "Our struggle will continue inside and outside parliament to get rid of the memorandum." "Memorandum" is the official term for the terms of the bailouts.

Golden Dawn chief Nikos Michaloliakos makes televised statement: We will rise from 6th party to 4th party, we will fight the memorandum in and outside parliament.

[TheParliamentarian]

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..

[TheParliamentarian]

Maria Kagkelidou tweets: New Democracy supporters outside electoral kiosk look uncomfortable. Not many politicians wishing to comment, many cancelling on media

[TheParliamentarian]

Vote breakdown by age:

18-34 SYRIZA 33%, ND 20%
35-54 SYRIZA 34%, ND 24%
55+ ND 39%, SYRIZA 20%

[TheParliamentarian]

from athens news
29%  ND
28.5%  Syriza
11%  PASOK
6.75%  XE
6.75%  IG
6%   DL
5.5%   KKE

Projected allocation of seats

[TheParliamentarian]

According to Public Issue, the minimum percentage required for forming a coalition government (151 seats) is 38.2. Exit polls put the threshold at 37.8 percent.

[TheParliamentarian]

Skai TV gives first seat projections from their exit polls: Syriza 28% 124 seats, ND, 27.5% 73 seats, Pasok 13% 33 seats. I

[TheParliamentarian]

interior ministry has national results up

[TheParliamentarian]

syriza - cities  ND - farms...    thats what it looks like to me..

[TheParliamentarian]

Antenna TV estimates that New Democracy will win by more than 1 percentage point, Kathimerini reports.

[TheParliamentarian]

Greek state TV estimates that on those exit numbers New Democracy and Pasok could form a coalition. The 300 seats would be distributed thus:
New Democracy 127 (including the bonus 50 for winning), Syriza 72, Pasok 32, Independent Greeks 21, Golden Dawn 19, Democratic Left 16, Communist Party of Greece 13.

[TheParliamentarian]

Marella Oppenheim tweets: Here in Athen looks like New Democracy to win. Now the country braces itself for street demos and mayhem.

[TheParliamentarian]

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

[TheParliamentarian]

How is joining a rightwing government not suicide for PASOK?

I too would like to know this

[TheParliamentarian]

Syriza is closing the gap however...   i see a 3rd election...

[TheParliamentarian]

Panos Kammenos, leader of the Independent Greeks, a right-wing party that could have been in line to ally with New Democracy has told the press that the party is keen to support a government that will condemn the bailout agreements – that would in effect rule out a deal with New Democracy.

[TheParliamentarian]

http://www.skai.gr/ekloges2012  great results table graphic thing here

[TheParliamentarian]

Golden Dawn   6,95%   188.708   -0,0%  change

opinion polls showed 3.9% before the blackout.   what does it mean when the only party seemingly unaffected by the last 6 weeks are the neo-nazis?

[TheParliamentarian]

So will there be a third election now?

yes...

[TheParliamentarian]

with that kind of coalition greece will burn...    pasok lost its mandate..  they are not change...  its like us voting democrats into congress and the white house for change..  you not going to get change from the same two parties uve been voting for for the last 30 years (hundreds in our case)  the may election made it clear that the greeks want change.

[TheParliamentarian]