“Anti-bailout parties” still commanded a majority of the votes.
85% of Greeks want to stay in the Eurozone
29.7% Samaras’s Conservative New Democracy party
27.0% SYRIZA with Alexis Tsipras the 37-year-old leader – jubilant with their share
52.0% of Greeks cast ballots against the terms of the international BaiIout deal.
40.0% of Greeks are for the BaiIout deal
12.3% for 0LD PASOK (CRlME RlDDEN Evangelos Venizelos) PARTY Pro-BaiIout!
150,000 civil servants must be FlRED
11 Billion Euros in CUTS this month
BANKSTERS and SPECULATORS will buy a swathe of state-owned companies
Increased tax collection
5% Shrinkage of Greek economy in 2012
7% Shrinkage of Greek economy in 2011
23% Unemployment
Harsh austerity measures will make ECONOMY WORSE.
“My biggest fear is of a social explosion. If there is no change in the policy mix, we’re going to have a social explosion even if you bring Jesus Christ to govern this country.”
– Senior Adviser to Antonis Samaras.
“From Monday we will continue the fight…the next government after this one will be a left government.”
– Alexis Tsipras the 37-year-old leader of SYRlZA
New Democracy’s Samaras must form a coalition charged with implementing highly unpopular spending cuts and privatization, while the economy nosedives.
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The new conservative government would have the people of Greece against it from the outset. “Our dream of European union was very different. It was a union of countries and peoples, not a union to serve banks and not a Fourth German RElCH…Our country is under occupation. How would you feel if they sent a GauIeiter to run your country and tell you what to do?”
– Stathis Stavropoulos, a newspaper cartoonist
“What is there for us to celebrate? Our country is in such a deep crisis.”
- Philip Taylor
