These Greek parliamentary elections saw a rejection of the two mainstream parties, PASOK and New Democracy, who implemented austerity measures. SYRIZA emerged as the leading party with 16.8% of the vote, while the extreme right Golden Dawn received 7%. No party was able to form a government, making new elections likely. The results reflect widespread discontent with austerity and a punishment of the parties that agreed to international bailouts.
A paper outlining the causes and conditions of the rise of far-right parties in Western Europe, written for my Governments and Politics of Western Europe class.
A US-American SYRIZA? Bernie Sanders, Social Democracy, Opposition to Austeri...Stephen Cheng
This is an independent essay that I wrote discussing possible parallels between SYRIZA, a socialist party which took power in Greece in early 2015, and the Bernie Sanders campaign for the 2016 US-American presidential election.
An Appraisal of the Current State of Affairs in Nigerian Party Politicsinventionjournals
Nigeria, like many other African countries, has had its fair share of democratic challenges, but it has also recorded some achievement over the years. There have already been calls across the country for some adjustments and improvements on the way political parties are run and managed, in the years to come. This paper sets out to analytically x-ray some of the challenges currently bedevilling the structure and workings of the political parties in Nigeria with a view to repositioning the ideological root and value system that these political parties are driven by. Using the secondary data where information is gathered and the content of same analysed the paper tends to showcase the salient strength and weaknesses inherent in the Nigeria political party system. It concludes that the political parties in Nigeria have always had to grapple with challenges owing to the fact that the formation of the parties are built along faulty lines, chiefly among which is the lack of a clear cut ideology and proposes amongst others that party members begin to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship by displaying some sense of direction towards establishing a robust party manifesto.
: Right populism in the United States and in the European Union is one of
the leading trends in their political reality. That is why we need to structurize our
understanding of this phenomenon by listing its main indicators and by explaining
its causal background. What seems to belong to the leading determinants of the phenomenon is: the hostility toward immigration, the perception of multinational companies as a threat to local labor markets, a postulate to reduce bureaucracy, anti-elitism,
another understanding of international politics combined with a new opening in the
relations with Russia.
Various right populist movements result from several determinants such as a significant increase of immigration in Europe, the growth of national debt, expanding
bureaucracy, growing importance of international corporations, a flood of terrorist
attacks or negative demographic tendencies.
The ideology of right populism can be referred to two different traditions: to individualist libertarianism (which partially determines the ideology of the Tea Party and some
other American movements) and to alt-right, collectivist, tribal traditionalism, which
is more common in the Old Continent.
Argentina From Kirchner to KirchnerSteven LevitskyMaría.docxjustine1simpson78276
Argentina: From Kirchner to Kirchner
Steven Levitsky
María Victoria Murillo
Journal of Democracy, Volume 19, Number 2, April 2008, pp. 16-30 (Article)
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2008.0030
For additional information about this article
Access Provided by Florida International University at 01/07/11 7:13PM GMT
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jod/summary/v019/19.2levitsky.html
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jod/summary/v019/19.2levitsky.html
Néstor Kirchner s abili-
ty to concentrate power
was limited by robust
democratic institutions
a strong civil society
and the nature of his
own Peronist coalition.
authority
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Journal of Democracy, Volume 23, Number 2, April 2012, pp. 148-161
(Article)
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2012.0029
For additional information about this article
Access provided by Florida International University (8 Jan 2015 14:28 GMT)
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ArgentinA:
the persistence of peronism
Ernesto Calvo and M. Victoria Murillo
Ernesto Calvo is associate professor of government and politics at the
University of Maryland–College Park. M. Victoria Murillo is profes-
sor of political science and international affairs at Columbia Univer-
sity and the author of Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy-
making in Latin America (2009).
On 23 October 2011, Argentina’s Peronist president Cristina Fernán-
dez de Kirchner of the Justicialist Party (PJ) overcame a bumpy first
term and comfortably won reelection. She garnered an outright major-
ity of 54.1 percent of the popular vote in the first round, besting her
2007 showing by roughly 9 percentage points and avoiding a runoff.
Although most observers had expected her to win, the sweeping scale
of her victory exceeded the expectations of both her administration and
the fragmented opposition. In the most lopsided presidential result since
1928,1 she carried 23 of Argentina’s 24 provinces while her leading rival
Hermes Binner, the Socialist governor of Santa Fe Province, collected
only 16.8 percent of the national vote. Riding on her coattails, her Front
for Victory (FPV) coalition easily took three-quarters of the governor-
ships and both houses of Congress, winning 135 of 257 seats in the
Chamber of Deputies and 38 of 72 seats in the Senate.
The election served as a reminder of the remarkable durability and
ideologically flexible appeal of the Peronist “brand” in Argentine poli-
tics. It also sh.
There’s little difficulty in showing that some of the most venerable political parties of the democratic world may be facing terminal crises. The difficulty is in determining if government by a party or parties – the sustaining base of administrations the democratic world over – can last.
A paper outlining the causes and conditions of the rise of far-right parties in Western Europe, written for my Governments and Politics of Western Europe class.
A US-American SYRIZA? Bernie Sanders, Social Democracy, Opposition to Austeri...Stephen Cheng
This is an independent essay that I wrote discussing possible parallels between SYRIZA, a socialist party which took power in Greece in early 2015, and the Bernie Sanders campaign for the 2016 US-American presidential election.
An Appraisal of the Current State of Affairs in Nigerian Party Politicsinventionjournals
Nigeria, like many other African countries, has had its fair share of democratic challenges, but it has also recorded some achievement over the years. There have already been calls across the country for some adjustments and improvements on the way political parties are run and managed, in the years to come. This paper sets out to analytically x-ray some of the challenges currently bedevilling the structure and workings of the political parties in Nigeria with a view to repositioning the ideological root and value system that these political parties are driven by. Using the secondary data where information is gathered and the content of same analysed the paper tends to showcase the salient strength and weaknesses inherent in the Nigeria political party system. It concludes that the political parties in Nigeria have always had to grapple with challenges owing to the fact that the formation of the parties are built along faulty lines, chiefly among which is the lack of a clear cut ideology and proposes amongst others that party members begin to imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship by displaying some sense of direction towards establishing a robust party manifesto.
: Right populism in the United States and in the European Union is one of
the leading trends in their political reality. That is why we need to structurize our
understanding of this phenomenon by listing its main indicators and by explaining
its causal background. What seems to belong to the leading determinants of the phenomenon is: the hostility toward immigration, the perception of multinational companies as a threat to local labor markets, a postulate to reduce bureaucracy, anti-elitism,
another understanding of international politics combined with a new opening in the
relations with Russia.
Various right populist movements result from several determinants such as a significant increase of immigration in Europe, the growth of national debt, expanding
bureaucracy, growing importance of international corporations, a flood of terrorist
attacks or negative demographic tendencies.
The ideology of right populism can be referred to two different traditions: to individualist libertarianism (which partially determines the ideology of the Tea Party and some
other American movements) and to alt-right, collectivist, tribal traditionalism, which
is more common in the Old Continent.
Argentina From Kirchner to KirchnerSteven LevitskyMaría.docxjustine1simpson78276
Argentina: From Kirchner to Kirchner
Steven Levitsky
María Victoria Murillo
Journal of Democracy, Volume 19, Number 2, April 2008, pp. 16-30 (Article)
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2008.0030
For additional information about this article
Access Provided by Florida International University at 01/07/11 7:13PM GMT
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jod/summary/v019/19.2levitsky.html
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jod/summary/v019/19.2levitsky.html
Néstor Kirchner s abili-
ty to concentrate power
was limited by robust
democratic institutions
a strong civil society
and the nature of his
own Peronist coalition.
authority
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Journal of Democracy, Volume 23, Number 2, April 2012, pp. 148-161
(Article)
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2012.0029
For additional information about this article
Access provided by Florida International University (8 Jan 2015 14:28 GMT)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jod/summary/v023/23.2.calvo.html
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jod/summary/v023/23.2.calvo.html
ArgentinA:
the persistence of peronism
Ernesto Calvo and M. Victoria Murillo
Ernesto Calvo is associate professor of government and politics at the
University of Maryland–College Park. M. Victoria Murillo is profes-
sor of political science and international affairs at Columbia Univer-
sity and the author of Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy-
making in Latin America (2009).
On 23 October 2011, Argentina’s Peronist president Cristina Fernán-
dez de Kirchner of the Justicialist Party (PJ) overcame a bumpy first
term and comfortably won reelection. She garnered an outright major-
ity of 54.1 percent of the popular vote in the first round, besting her
2007 showing by roughly 9 percentage points and avoiding a runoff.
Although most observers had expected her to win, the sweeping scale
of her victory exceeded the expectations of both her administration and
the fragmented opposition. In the most lopsided presidential result since
1928,1 she carried 23 of Argentina’s 24 provinces while her leading rival
Hermes Binner, the Socialist governor of Santa Fe Province, collected
only 16.8 percent of the national vote. Riding on her coattails, her Front
for Victory (FPV) coalition easily took three-quarters of the governor-
ships and both houses of Congress, winning 135 of 257 seats in the
Chamber of Deputies and 38 of 72 seats in the Senate.
The election served as a reminder of the remarkable durability and
ideologically flexible appeal of the Peronist “brand” in Argentine poli-
tics. It also sh.
There’s little difficulty in showing that some of the most venerable political parties of the democratic world may be facing terminal crises. The difficulty is in determining if government by a party or parties – the sustaining base of administrations the democratic world over – can last.
Άρθρο/συνέντευξη για την έρευνα twiplomacy της Burson-Marsteller στο Έψιλον της Κυριακάτικης Ελευθεροτυπίας με δηλώσεις της Μαρίας Λαζαρίμου και του Matthias Luefkens. Από την Ιωάννα Νιαώτη. http://twiplomacy.com/
Είναι ξεκάθαρο πως οι Γερμανικές εκλογές έχουν μεγάλες επιπτώσεις όχι μόνο για τη Γερμανία, αλλά για ολόκληρη την ΕΕ και ιδιαίτερα για την Ελλάδα. Όλοι παρακολουθούν με προσοχή τις εξελίξεις. Η Burson-Marsteller αναλύει τις επικειμενες Γερμανικές Εκλογές (German Election Preview Insight)παρουσιάζοντας κάποια από τα βασικά ζητήματα και θέματα που πρέπει να προσέξουμε.
Θα υπάρξει νεώτερη ανάλυση αμέσως μετά τις εκλογές.
Παρουσίαση των αποτελεσμάτων της Έρευνας για το Lobbying με σύγκριση των ελληνικών στοιχείων με τον ευρωπαϊκό μέσο όρο. Παρουσίαση του Δημήτρη Μαύρου, Διευθύνοντος Συμβούλου της MRB Hellas.
«Καλύτερες μέρες είναι μπροστά μας», δηλώνουν τα τρία τέταρτα της αραβικής νεολαίας στην 5η ετήσια έρευνα της ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller για τη στάση των νέων στις Αραβικές Χώρες.
o Η αραβική νεολαία έχει μεγαλύτερο αίσθημα εθνικής ταυτότητας μετά την αραβική άνοιξη, με το 87% των ερωτηθέντων να δηλώνουν «περήφανοι που είναι Άραβες».
o Η ατομική ιδιοκτησία και οι δίκαιοι μισθοί παραμένουν οι σημαντικότερες προτεραιότητες, ενώ η αύξηση του κόστους ζωής αποτελεί τη μεγαλύτερη ανησυχία τους.
o Τα Ηνωμένα Αραβικά Εμιράτα εξακολουθούν να θεωρούνται το κράτος-πρότυπο για τους νέους άραβες. Ανάμεσα στις χώρες που βρίσκονται εκτός της Μέσης Ανατολής-Βορείου Αφρικής, βλέπουν πιο ευνοϊκά τη Γαλλία, τη Γερμανία και την Κίνα.
Η ομιλία της Μαρίας Λαζαρίμου στο 14ο Ετήσιο Συνέδριο Business Week, που διοργανώνεται από τον Σύλλογο Φοιτητών και Αποφοίτων του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών στη Διοίκηση Επιχειρήσεων του Πανεπιστημίου Πειραιώς (MBA's Society). Το θέμα της ομιλίας της : "Αξίες και Θεσμοί σε Κρίση. Ξαναχτίζοντας την Εμπιστοσύνη σε Αντίξοες Συνθήκες"
Στην τελική ευθεία προς τις εκλογές ποιοι είναι οι 10 σχολιαστές, δημοσιογράφοι και πολιτικοί με τη μεγαλύτερη επιρροή στο twitter ως προς θέματα πολιτικής επικαιρότητας?
Άρθρο της Μ.Λαζαρίμου, CEO της Advocate/BM και μέλος του Δ.Σ. Ινστιτούτου Εταιρικής Ευθύνης στη Real News για τη σημασία της Εταιρικής Κοινωνικής Ευθύνης σε μια περίοδο κρίσης εμπιστοσύνης προς θεσμούς, κυβερνήσεις, πολιτικούς και επιχειρήσεις.
Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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ys jagan mohan reddy political career, Biography.pdfVoterMood
Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, often referred to as Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh, to Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (popularly known as YSR), a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and Y.S. Vijayamma.
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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Greek Election 2012 Insight by Burson-Marsteller
1. In elections on 6 May the people of Greece gave a stunning rebuff to the two mainstream political parties and turned to the radical
left and extreme right in an election that has highlighted discontent in the country with punishing austerity measures.
The Socialists (PASOK, who had previously been the largest party in the Greek Parliament) finished third on just 13.2%, behind
radical left-wing party SYRIZA (16.8%) and the centre-right New Democracy (ND - 18.9%). Together, PASOK and ND, the mainstays
of Greek politics, won less than a third of the vote - a historic low. In the previous elections in 2009, they won the votes of more
than three-quarters of voters. Two new parties from the right and left - ANEL and DIMAR respectively - entered Parliament, and the
Communists (KKE) increased their score. Most shockingly, the extremist Golden Dawn party scored nearly seven per cent. Nearly
20% of votes went to parties that did not reach the three per cent threshold for entering Parliament.
The composition of the assembly mean that it will be extremely difficult to form a government: ND has already failed, and SYRIZA
has now been given a small window to seek to form a coalition. It seems likely that there will be new elections. The results have
plunged Greece - and the eurozone - into fresh turmoil.
passed to SYRIZA (which, on 9 May, is halfway through the three-
day period it is granted to find partners). There is an increasing
likelihood of fresh elections on 17 June.
These elections mark the end of the de facto two-party system
that has reigned since 1974. The two traditionally main parties,
New Democracy (ND, centre-right) and PASOK (centre-left), saw
their share of the vote drop dramatically. The electorate seems to For the first time since the restoration of democracy in 1974,
have punished the two parties for their support of tough austerity seven parties will form the Parliament. Other parties won nearly
measures agreed with Greece’s international creditors. one-fifth of the vote, but failed to overcome the three per cent
threshold for entry into Parliament. New Democracy (ND), as the
leading party, won a bonus of 50 seats, with the remaining 250
allocated proportionately. This electoral law is designed to allow
These elections had the shortest election campaign in modern
the formation of a government by a single party gaining around
Greek history. Although it had been decided in December to
40% of the vote. Given the support for parties that failed to enter
delay elections until at least late April (to allow the technocratic
Parliament, it was theoretically possible to form a government
government to pass austerity measures), the official date was not
with 35-37% - but no single party won more than 19%.
announced until 11 April. This left parties with less than four
weeks to persuade voters. Against the backdrop of austerity
measures and the spectre of the country’s bankruptcy, campaigns
were run on whether parties were for the bailout and reform Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA): led by Alexis Tsipras, this
programme (’memorandum parties’, referring to the agreements coalition of several left-wing political parties is pro-European but
between Greece and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and anti-memorandum - a stance that seems to have won the favor of
the European Union) or against (’anti-memorandum parties’). many voters, who were unhappy with the Socialists (PASOK). It is
the only left-wing party that has openly proposed a left-wing
coalition government. SYRIZA has quadrupled its share of the
vote in comparison to the 2009 parliamentary elections.
The short, single-issue campaign resulted in radicalisation:
disaffected ND and PASOK voters deserted these once-dominant Golden Dawn: This extreme-right party has links to neo-fascist
parties who had formed a unity government and accepted the movements around the world. This is the first time it won enough
unpopular terms and austerity of the second bail-out. Support for votes to enter the Parliament, with an impressive 21 seats. The
these parties fell to its lowest level since 1974, when Greece result can be attributed to increasing security concerns and anti-
emerged from a seven-year dictatorship. immigration sentiments that are prevalent among many citizens.
Smaller parties benefitted: in an overwhelming ‘anti- Independent Greeks (ANEL): Founded less than two months
memorandum’ vote, the biggest winner was the Coalition of the ago by an ousted ND MP, Panos Kammenos, this right-wing, anti
Radical Left (SYRIZA), which finished second, winning 52 seats in -memorandum party focused on the preservation of national
the Greek Parliament. The extreme-right Golden Dawn (which sovereignty and attracted conservative voters from ND and LAOS.
denies being neo-Nazi, insisting it is nationalist and patriotic) won
Democratic Left (DIMAR): Founded by dissident SYRIZA MPs,
21 seats; the right-wing Independent Greeks (ANEL) won 33 seats
later joined by disaffected members of PASOK, DIMAR represents
in their first election. The radical right-wing Popular Orthodox
a milder left-wing approach than SYRIZA and wants to play a
Rally (LAOS) was punished for its brief participation in the three-
constructive role in the governance of the country. Led by Fotis
party caretaker government led by Lucas Papademos, and saw its
Kouvelis, it opposed welfare cuts and the deregulation in the
vote shrink below the three per cent needed to enter Parliament.
labour market while advocating that Greece stay in the euro (with
The results highlight the anger and despair of the Greek people, a renegotiated economic adjustment and growth programme).
who called for a drastic change in the political landscape and
Communists (KKE): the KKE played a key part in recent anti-
disengagement from the bailout agreement with the IMF and EU.
austerity protests in Athens and was hoping for an increase on its
No party won enough votes to form a government. ND already previous score of 7.5% (it actually achieved an increase of less
stated that it could not form a coalition, and so the baton was than one percentage point, and lost its leadership of the radical
2. Parliamentary elections
Several other parties did not win enough support to enter
Votes Parliament, including the Green Ecologists, a pro-euro party that
is represented in the European Parliament, and Popular
Orthodox Rally (LAOS), a right-wing party that withdrew its
support from the coalition at the time of the second bailout
programme. Other liberal, right-wing parties in favour of the
memorandum and structural changes also failed to enter
Parliament, including Democratic Alliance (DISY), led by a
former ND MP and former foreign minister, Dora Bakoyannis,
Drasi (Action), led by a well-known liberal politician, Stefanos
Manos, and Recreate Greece, a newly-formed party of non-
professional politicians, who managed to achieve 2.15% in their
first elections.
Composition of Parliament On Monday 7 May the President of Greece gave Antonis Samaras,
the leader of New Democracy (ND), a mandate to lead talks to
form a government. Despite having a three-day window to
negotiate with other parties, Mr Samaras said on the same day
that he was unable to form a government. The baton has now
been passed to Alexis Tsipras, the leader of SYRIZA. He has
already rejected calls from ND and PASOK for a so-called
‘national salvation government’ and will instead seek the support
of other Left parties, such as DIMAR. While DIMAR’s leader, Fotis
Kouvelis, seems positively disposed towards this idea, it is unlikely
to see the light of day as the Communists (KKE) have said that
they will not participate in any coalition government.
Given the fragmentation of the Greek Parliament, it is very likely
that fresh elections will follow. If SYRIZA or PASOK (which is next
Key facts from an extraordinary election
in line) fail to form a government, Parliament will convene on 17
32 political groupings participated in the election May to appoint a transitional government to lead the country to
Turnout was 65.1%, down from 70-75% up to 2009 new elections within one month.
PASOK scored only a third of their usual vote (13.18% in A second election will show whether the results of 6 May were a
2012, compared to around 40% up to 2009)
The vote for New Democracy (ND) halved from around 35-45%
conscious choice of the Greek public or whether emotions
pre-2009 to just 18.85% in 2012 controlled voters’ choices. Ahead of new elections, parties are set
PASOK and ND had previously won around 75-80% of the vote; to take the time to form alliances in an effort to improve the
in 2012, they won less than a third of votes chances of forming a government. Mr Tsipras is set to approach
Nearly 20% of votes went to parties that failed to enter other left-wing parties, as well as the Greens, with the aim of
Parliament
potentially joining forces. ND and PASOK will also come under
44.5% of 18-24-year olds voted for SYRIZA, Golden Dawn or
increased pressure - not least internationally - to cooperate and
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40% of the voters made their choice in the last three days to form a grand coalition in favour of the memorandum.
of the campaign; 20% made a decision on polling day
International creditors - and EU leaders - will be looking to this
The inability of the three liberal parties to join forces
prospect as the best way of shoring up support for the euro and
before the election left them all outside Parliament
for the bailout measures. However, the people of Greece have
made a clear statement that they are deeply unhappy with the
current austerity measures that are the price of keeping Greece in
left). It has been a consistent advocate of withdrawal from the EU. the eurozone.
Greeks may look to the election of François Hollande as President
of France as a positive step in turning back the tide of austerity
New Democracy (ND): the main conservative centre-right party,
and an opportunity to persuade the German government -
it has been led by Antonis Samaras since 2009. Despite winning
popularly perceived as the instigator of the harsh economic
the most votes, ND saw its share decline to unprecedented lows.
conditions in Greece - to change course, or at least to modify it.
Mr Samaras had insisted on the need for elections as soon as
However, the signals from Berlin are that the Greek reforms are to
possible and for an “autonomous New Democracy government”,
continue. If Sunday’s vote is confirmed in new elections, the
rejecting pre-election agreements with other parties.
prospect of Greece leaving the eurozone may become
Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK): the main centre-left increasingly real.
party, it was led into this election by Evangelos Venizelos, a
former finance minister. PASOK carried the ‘political cost’ of the Original text by the team at Advocate/Burson-Marsteller, Burson-
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