Posted on 06/25/2023 6:19:06 AM PDT by devane617
Greeks headed to the polls for the second time in less than two months on Sunday, with the conservative party in power a strong favorite to win with a wide majority after a campaign focused on economic growth and security.
The vote is overshadowed by a major shipwreck just over a week ago that left hundreds of migrants dead or missing off the coast of western Greece. But the disaster is unlikely to significantly affect the overall outcome as Greeks are expected to focus on domestic economic issues.
Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, is eyeing a second term as prime minister after his New Democracy party won by a huge margin in May elections – but fell short of gaining enough parliamentary seats to form a government. With a new electoral law now favoring the winning party with bonus seats, he is hoping to form a strong majority in the 300-member parliament.
His main rival is Alexis Tsipras, 48, who leads the left-wing Syriza party and served as prime minister from 2015 to 2019 – some of the most turbulent years of Greece´s nearly decade-long financial crisis.
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“I have not kept up with Greek politics so maybe someone can fill me in regarding the apparent shift Right.”
I can’t speak for Greece specifically, but the term ‘conservative’ in Europe, generally, is meaningless - not even liberal-light. We thought that Italy turned conservative and they wound up with a president even more dedicated to getting World War 3 started and loading the country with immigrants.
...and don’t even get me started with the UK after they elected their final real conservative, Thatcher.
I’d consider moving there. 6 months on the Greek islands. Heaven. Others have donut. Leonard Cohen. Sophia Loren.
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Huh? Making no sense with your posts.
He’s funny.
Doesn’t seem like much of a shift at all from what I see in Wikipedia. Conservatives actually lost ground in the May election But this article says a new law makes it easier for vote-leaders to rack up seats. (Maybe more like the U.S. plurality-wins elections?) The hard left has a near-majority status in the polls, but is split between three parties, the radical left, the center-left, and the Soviet-style communist parties.
This is a post about Greek elections. It’s spelled “Phripathon.”
If you don’t pay, we all suffer. Hence, phri (free) + pathos (suffering, malady).
“Conservatives” in Greece means people who don’t fantasize about Stalinist utopias on their honeymoon.
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