Brief Greek election polling update | 33 comments (33 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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If Anexartiti Ellines manages to further damage ND or ND otherwise decines to c. 20%, then it would take only any 2 out of SYRIZA (12%), PASOK (11%), and DemAr (15,5%) acting in coalition to achieve the 50 seat bonus and form the core of a new centre left broadly anti-troika Government.

Then the EU would have to impose another ECB Government

We no longer live in a Democracy, it is a Eumocracy...

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Tue Mar 20th, 2012 at 11:15:41 AM EST
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PASOK is not center-left anymore, they were the government that introduced the IMF and austerity: they are not anti-troika

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by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Tue Mar 20th, 2012 at 06:14:18 PM EST
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You need to repeat that more often.

And, like I predicted in another post, the viciousness with which they'll attack anything on the left during the campaign will make ultra-fascists blush.... Mark my words.

by Euroliberal on Fri Mar 23rd, 2012 at 06:00:04 AM EST
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The so-called "Social Democrats" have occupied the Social Liberal space (especially where there wasn't a pre-existing Social-Liberal party), leaving the traditional Social-Democrat space to be colonised by Socialist or post-communist parties. Just recently in Spain a representative from the United Left said something to the effect of "defending Keynesianism has become akin to defending Marxism" - both in the sense that they on the left are now taking Keynesian positions, but also in the sense that Keynes is now considered as "radical" by the mainstream as Marx was 30 years ago.

But this is nothing new. The Portuguese Social Democratic Party is a centre-right party in the EPP and has given us Barroso. The Danish Venstre ("left") got its name at the turn of the 20th century when liberals were to the left of the political spectrum. Now they are right-wing liberals. They haven't moved, nor has their name changed, but the political spectrum has shifted under them.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 23rd, 2012 at 06:09:57 AM EST
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It may be of some interest that according to a recent poll the public perception of PASOK's political inclinations is pretty diverse. 31% (25% among its 2009 voters) can't place it on the left-right spectrum all together, 11,5 (15%) thinks it is center-left,10% (15%) places it at the center, 18,7% (23%) on the center-right, 17% (15,4%) on the right, and 10,6% (7%) on the_extreme_ right! A few years ago it was solidly between center and center left...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Fri Mar 23rd, 2012 at 06:43:14 AM EST
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I wasn't aware of that. Pretty accurate.

by Euroliberal on Fri Mar 23rd, 2012 at 07:58:14 AM EST
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The poll, (in Greek) MSWord file p.54

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by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Fri Mar 23rd, 2012 at 08:36:25 AM EST
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Brief Greek election polling update | 33 comments (33 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)