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Posted by kasama on May 7, 2012
Athens, May 7, 2012. From the KOE.:
These first comments are based on the exit polls after the closing of the voting in Greece. The official results will be known later.
According to the exit polls, the two “big” bourgeois parties lost more than half of the votes they had gotten in 2009. From the 80% they had together in the last elections, they now total less than 40%.
The Coalition of Radical Left – SYRIZA — is the big winner, winning the 2nd place (from 4.7% in 2009, SYRIZA now got, according to the exit polls, from 15% to 17.5% of the popular vote!).
We will send you more detailed results later.
Here are those first comments:
1. The Greek people have spoken. In fact, the Greek people have been speaking for two years now, but those “above” were not listening.
Today the Greek people have swept the pro-troika (IMF-EU-ECB) political forces and have triggered an earthquake that makes the political system tremble. Our people have sent a thunderous message to the troika.
2. The path towards a different type of representation, a different political system, the path towards real democracy and a radical political transition, now gets open.
3. The people put our country on a course to a way out, leaving behind (and punishing) all those who have been managing Greece these last two years and imposing a regime of social destruction.
4. The great protagonists of this day, that is, the Greek people and the popular movement (which in great extent found
expression in SYRIZA –Coalition of Radical Left) today shoulder a huge task: to turn this way out into a reality.
[Note: Kasama has made minor corrections to the translation from Greek.]
