Breaking: Greece Exit Poll Projects Radical Left Anti-Bailout Syriza Party Winning Election

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43. Here are a few, they are working with right wing Golden Dawn and Independent Greeks

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greece-has-a-new-government-as-syriza-forms-coalition-with-rightwing-independent-greeks-10002368.html

The coalition between Greece’s left-wing election victors Syriza and the right-wing Independent Greeks has been described as the "worst possible outcome" for the country's troubled economy.

It took less than an hour of talks this morning for an alliance to be struck, with the groups bridging their numerous differences in a shared opposition to austerity measures enforced by the EU.

Economics analyst Wolf Piccoli, from Teneo Intelligence, told Bloomberg that although Syriza may enjoy a short "honeymoon", it is badly paired with its new coalition partner and the inevitable clash of extreme left and right-wing ideas could cause instability.

"It is the worst possible outcome, let’s be very clear about that," he said. "The Independent Greeks are a conspiracy-prone nationalist party…it’s a bad mix, let’s put it that way. Also there’s not much experience in government on both sides.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/12/31/greek-pm-accuses-syriza-of-ignorance-and-arrogance/

He said that the country was dragged to elections by a minority comprising MPs from SYRIZA and Golden Dawn, adding that “this alliance of irresponsible and extremists has canceled out any potential for consensus. How can you reach a consensus when you are being blackmailed by a minority in parliament; can you consent to instability and destabilization in the country when Greece appears to be able to stand on its own feet again. How can you reach a consensus on division and the country’s isolation?”

“We have the right to three things, the country’s European course which they undermine, the economic growth that has just started and they want to cancel out and the democratic normalcy they boycott anyway they can,” the prime minister underlined.

Referring to the presidential election, he said that despite the slander and blackmail most of the independent MPs voted for Stavros Dimas but there were a few that gave in to blackmail, adding that “even SYRIZA’s Manolis Glezos did not tolerate the odd alliance between SYRIZA, ANEL and Golden Dawn, realizing what the country’s dysfunction is.

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My Greek friends are telling me that Syriza is very nationalistic and ethnocentric. So they work well with the far right in those kinds of policies. I would have preferred another far left party to have won. Austerity has to go, but the rise of nationalism and ethnocentrism is not something we should be celebrating.