Please donate to the Freepathon.
Thanks!
“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.
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.
“Conservatives” in Greece means people who don’t fantasize about Stalinist utopias on their honeymoon.