PASOK the Panhellenic Socialist sellout Party has officialy lost the elections and has come in a distant third. The Greek conservatives, the New Democrats, have officialy won but without a majority. SYRIZA the Greek left coalition party is in second place. Fourth place goes to Kammenos and his party, that guy always makes me laugh and the Nazis are in there too known as the Golden Dawn party. Golden Shower might be more appropriate with their freakishly short leader and his overstuffed skinhead bodyguards that now number 20 MPs. Things are very extreme these days. Samaras, the leader of the ND conservatives already took a turn at forming a government but inspite of his 108 seats in parliament was unable to find support for a coalition. The simple truth is that ND and PASOK, the former coalition government supporters with 70 percent of the vote till last sundays elections, have been reduced to a combined force of less than 40 percent of the vote and less than 151 members of parliament. So the much hated IMF and Troika loans are no more. That is a fact. Or is it?
Tsipras, the leader of SYRIZA, also got a chance at bat but he too was unable to form a government coalition. The leaders of both PASOK and ND offered a vote of confidence with the only condition that Greece retain the euro as her national currency. Tsipras accepted their support with the only condition that their leaders send letters to the IMF and Troika rescinding their letters of guarantee sent before the election. I guess they refused to do that as there has been no straight talk since. It is funny when in history you find the point of no return. It has nothing to do with ability or human will but more to do with the movement of the planets. Getty Lee was able to march 15000 men unnoticed under the cover of darkness. He won the battle but then the south lost the war. If the memorandum and the Troika are not disbanded we will continue to see personal bankruptcies growing in this country. We will continue to see economic suicides that in the last two years number two thousand and include mostly family men and retirees. These numbers are the seeds of civil war sewn by a system whose only answer to pressure was to bash the weak with aggressive policies. In July that law that had protected Greeks from having their households foreclosed is getting rescinded. Time runs out. In as much as I see Tsipras as the only solution my neighbour sees Samaras as the only solution, his neighbour sees Kammenos as the only solution and the guy across the street will vote Golden Dawn from now on.
Kammenos is a funny case indeed. I say that mostly because he makes me laugh. A politician with a sense of humour is very rare in Greece. We are an ultra-conservative country. Kammenos is the founder and leader of a party of renegade conservatives that refused to vote the last memorandum. They were ousted from the ND party by Samaras and decided to form a party of their own called Independent Greeks. Kammenos gives some of the best speeches. He is rotund with a baby face and a rocker haircut of clean but greying hair. Above all he is clean, gleamishly clean. All politicians in Greece wear a suit. In his speeches Kammenos attacks the bankers for lending eachother at one percent and lending to governments at six or seven percent. He attacks Merkel for her expansionist policies and her attempts to reduce Greece to a protectorate of Germany. He opens bridges to China and Russia. He speaks of the proud Greek nation. He talks of conspiracies to thwart us, to deny us our land and our power to raise food and be self sufficient. He refers to the Belzbergs and others by their name and has no problem playing conspiracy theories on the tips of his fingers. He is mad. He is angry. He is right wing. He is Kammenos!
The real reason that nobody seems to be able to rule Greece nowadays is Golden Dawn. You see the parliament is split down the middle. The winning party, ND, got the 50 seat first party bonus, so thus 58 elected plus 50 bonus makes for 108 MPs. The second and third parties are in the 40 something MPs. That means that even the biggest party, ND, needs a three party coalition to rule, and that the hard left can't rule without the support of one of the memorandum signing parties, ND or PASOK. The only way out of this conundrum for either side is to accept the support of Golden Dawn and Vancouver clubbers may get a good laugh out of that. Nobody dares to work with those nazis. We will probably see elections before the month is out. Greetings to all and keep on rocking, in the free world!
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