{"id":56538,"date":"2015-01-26T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=56538"},"modified":"2015-01-26T10:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T08:31:59","slug":"greece-left-leaning-syriza-party-national-elections-56538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/greece-left-leaning-syriza-party-national-elections-56538\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece\u2019s left-leaning Syriza Party sweeps national elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SyrizaThe radical left, anti-austerity Syriza party has won Greece’s vote, election officials said on Sunday. Syriza has won Greek parliamentary elections with just over 35 percent of the votes, official results suggest.<\/h1>\n

With 90 percent of votes counted, official results put Syriza’s vote at 36.32 percent, giving the party approximately 149 seats in the parliament, just short of 151 needed to form a one-party government.<\/p>\n

This success marks a historic victory for the left wing party.<\/p>\n

Syriza\u2019s leader Alexis Tsipras will on Monday meet Panos Kammenos, leader of right-wing anti-austerity ANEL party — Independent Greeks — which looks set to get 13 seats in the parliament, for possible coalition talks.<\/p>\n

The New Democracy party of outgoing Prime Minister Antonis Samaras comes at a distant second with 27.86 percent with 76 seats, while extreme right-wing Golden Dawn has received 6.31 percent giving them 17 seats in the parliament.<\/p>\n

Tsipras said Sunday: “Greece leaves behind the austerity of destruction.<\/p>\n

“Hope has written history and Greece is turning the page.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur people have taken a step forward in history. From tomorrow we begin hard work. The people’s verdict cancels the memorandums of austerity and destruction, makes the Troika a thing of the past.”<\/p>\n

Tsipras has promised to form an anti-bailout government which will end the Troika’s — the EU, European Central Bank and the IMF — aid to Greece in addition to wiping out a big part of the national debt.<\/p>\n

The party leader also said that Syriza was committed to locating the one percent involved in tax evasion.<\/p>\n

He also outlined his plan is to \u201creverse the social and economic dislocation to lead to economic recovery and exit the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Samaras said after Tsipras\u2019 victory: \u201cThe Greek people have spoken and we all respect [its] decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have endured, we prevented the worst, restored the credibility of the country and we put the foundations for the return to growth,\u201d Samaras said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deliver a country today without a deficit, which emerges from recession, a country which is a member of the EU and of the Euro.<\/p>\n

I hope the next government will maintain these achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the jailed leader of Golden Dawn, Nikolaos Michaloliakos has hailed the result and called it \u201cgreat victory of the nationalist movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

European leaders’ and markets’ eyes are now on what the victory of Syriza may generate as a potential political uncertainty can put the country back at risk after it began to pick up after a disastrous financial crisis.<\/p>\n

A clash with the Troika which could possibly start a new crisis between the nation and its creditors, although Syriza has stated that it wants to keep the euro.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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