{"id":4846,"date":"2015-01-26T06:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2015-01-26T06:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:35:54","slug":"anti-austerity-syriza-sweeps-greece-parliamentary-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4846","title":{"rendered":"Anti-austerity Syriza sweeps Greece parliamentary poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"heading-story\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2015\/01\/voting-begins-greece-general-election-150125045236130.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-austerity Syriza sweeps Greece parliamentary poll<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"standfirst\"><strong>Party&#8217;s leader Alexis Tsipras, who wants to renegotiate EU and IMF bailout terms, set to become next prime minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Syriza, a radical left party,\u00a0has swept to power in Greece promising to end years of painful austerity policies, in an election victory that puts the country on a collision course with the EU and international creditors.<\/p>\n<p>In a result that exceeded analysts&#8217; expectations, Syriza and its 40-year-old leader Alexis Tsipras won 149 seats in the 300-seat Greek parliament, just two short of an absolute majority, with most of the votes counted on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Antonis Samaras&#8217;\u00a0New Democracy, the former party of government, was routed and reduced to around 76 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Syriza, which says it does not want to leave the euro, will become the first anti-austerity party to take power in Europe and Tsipras will be Greece&#8217;s youngest prime minister in 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tsipras, a\u00a0former Communist youth activist,\u00a0told thousands of flag-waving supporters in Athens: &#8220;Greece is leaving behind disastrous austerity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tsipras repeated his pledge to renegotiate the terms of Greece&#8217;s $269bn bailout with the EU and the International Monetary Fund, but struck a more conciliatory tone than during his fiery campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-austerity Syriza sweeps Greece parliamentary poll Party&#8217;s leader Alexis Tsipras, who wants to renegotiate EU and IMF bailout terms, set to become next prime minister. Syriza, a radical left party,\u00a0has swept to power in Greece promising to end years of painful austerity policies, in an election victory that puts the country on a collision course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2892,40,2809,279,1167,418,434,2236,2868],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-austerity","tag-austerity","tag-bailouts","tag-eu","tag-greece","tag-imf","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-syriza","tag-troika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4847,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}