Exit poll: Socialists to win Greek election

[Peacetrain]

ATHENS, Greece – Opposition Socialists will win Greece's parliamentary election on Sunday with between 41 and 44 percent of the vote, an exit poll for Greek TV stations said.

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' conservative New Democracy party is projected to finish in second place with between 34.3 and 37.3 percent of the vote, the poll said.

If the exit poll results are confirmed, it would mean the Socialists would be able to form a government with at least a slim majority of 151 seats in the 300-member Parliament.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091004/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_election

[tekisui]

1. knr!~

[Oregone]

2. Why is this a good thing?

Don't we want government's that will work well with the US? Won't this government conflict with the pro-capitalist parties in the US?

:)

[corpseratemedia]

3. just putting back what was taken away by outsiders

snip<...Greece, 1967
In 1964, liberal George Papandreou was elected prime minister of Greece; in July 1965, he was maneuvered out of office by a coalition of rightists assisted by the CIA. Two years later, the Right consolidated its power in a military coup. Of the five officers taking power, four were intimately connected with the U.S. military or CIA. The leader, George Papadopoulos, worked with the Nazis in World War II, was trained in the United States, and had been on the CIA payroll for fifteen years. Since 1947, the Greek army and the U.S. military aid group in Athens had worked as part of the same team. Following the 1967 coup, the Papadopoulos dictatorship instituted widespread repression; Amnesty International documented not less than two thousand people tortured.>snip

from: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Foreign_Policy/RollbackDoctrine1945-80.html

[Mudoria]

4. Unfortunately for the Greeks they'll probaly be as inept as the current party in power..