Greek election - January 25th 2015

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Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy visited Greece in order to show support for Samaras going into the election.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_14/01/2015_546200

SYRIZA +1!

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I really hope Bruce Springsteen's The River beats out Golden Shower.

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So, if SYRIZA doesn't hit 37%, do we think we're looking at a SYRIZA minority government, a SYRIZA-led coalition with some other anti-austerity party, or a SYRIZA-led coalition with Vestigial PASOK?

Personally I hope fora a Syriza majority, so that they have the full responsibility for the "re-negotiations" with EU. It's better that there is a clear mandate behind it, and no one else can be blamed for the effects.

Grow up. If the greek people are so bovine as to vote for soggy Euro-communists, then they will both deserve and need to have the colonels back to teach them a lesson.

holy sh**t you're horrible

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SYRIZA at 149 seats.

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Rhodope and Achaea seem like big Freedom Subdivisions: Strongly SYRIZA with very low levels of support for both ND and Golden Shower. I know Thracian Muslims broke heavily for SYRIZA (is that mostly because of SYRIZA's traditional opposition to the privileges of the Church of Greece, or are there other reasons too?), but what's going on in Achaea? Is that a traditionally leftist area?

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Golden Shower's vote share actually decreased slightly from the last time around.

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I'm still interested in what's going on in Achaea. Is it more just non-Nazi anti-austerity than anything else?