Greece parliamentary election - September 20, 2015

[Famous Mortimer]

How much of this mess is down to the "winners bonus" rule they have in Greece of giving the winner of the election an extra fifty seats?

Well, if there was no winners bonus, no one would be able to form a government because SYRIZA, the Communists, and Golden Dawn together have a majority.

[Famous Mortimer]

If the anti Tsipras people control the CC, couldn't THEY take over SYRIZA and force Tsipras to start a break away?

[Famous Mortimer]

LAOS has announced they are not running either this time. So one less micro-partyo on the ballot.

This probably benefits ANEL?

Probably a tiny bit, but not much - and ANEL is likely tainted by being allied with Syriza. LAOS is practically irrelevant by now anyway.

Last time ND campaigned to the right on immigration and law & order and got a lot of former LAOS supporters. There is a bloc of floating right wingers that both ND and ANEL could theoretically get, but not sure how much Syriza hurts ANEL among right wingers outside of their core audience. px might know, but it is a "niche-market".

ANEL is hurt not so much because of its collaboration with SYRIZA per se. They are hurt because despite all their anti-austerity hysteria (Kammenos went so far to ask his supporters to lynch a PASOK MP who voted for the first package in 2010), eventually they too voted for the new program.

Agreed. ANEL voters are likely mad they voted for the bailout. If they didn't want to support a SYRIZA coalition, they wouldn't have voted ANEL in the first place, since joining SYRIZA's coalition was a big part of their campaign.