Greek Elections 2012 – Latest results according to Interior Ministry and Singular Logic based on 76.72% of the votes as of 02.20 am: 1.  NEA DIMOCRATIA  19.70% 110 seats 2. SYRIZA 16.33% 50 seats 3. PASOK 13.54% 42 seats 4. INDEP GREEKS 10.47% 32 seats 5. KKE 8.38% 26 seats …

First official results show winners and losers of Greek elections 2012. What is clear is that no party winds the absolute majority. conservative Nea Dimocratia hardly gets less than 21%, thus by counted 38% of the votes. Socialist PASOK suffers a historical low and left-wing SYRIZA emerges to second party. A coalition …

Greek Interior Ministry and Singular Logic votes processing system give the following results in rates and seats after counting 33,47% of votes. As of 11:00 pm: Nea Dimocratia 20.26% 112 seats SYRIZA 15.81% 48 seats PASOK 14.6% 43 seats INDEP GREEKS 10.32% 32 seats KKE 8.42% 26 seats Chrysi Avgi …

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The EXIT POLLS on this specific blogpost refer to May 6 2012 Elections. The Exit Polls for June 17 2012 elections will be realeased at 7 pm – Greek time- today, and will be posted on a new blogpost. Check directly  KTG-Homepage at www.keeptalkinggreece.com. Exit polls of May 6 2012 …

Ballot boxes opened at 7 o’clock in the morning in more than 20,000 voting centres across the country. More than 9.9 million registered voters are called to elect the next government of the debt-ridden country. 32 parties are competing but polls suggested that 7 to 10 would enter the Greek …

The election campaing is over.  Both sides are exhausted. The voters due to the permanent bombing of political spots and endless discussions on radio and TV. The political parties and the candidates after a short but stressful and active three-weeks long campaign period. Decided voters are eager to go and …

As official opinion polls are banned and those leaked to the press or published at several websites are rather not reliable, astrology could be the alternative tool to predict the elections outcome. The super full moon on the night May 5th-6th 2012, occurring in the sign of Scorpio would be to blame …

The election campaign ends today, the political parties are to hold their last meeting, and candidates to appear for the last time in the mass media. The Greek voter is supposed to get a 24-hour break from the bombardment of the ‘promises’ and ‘dilemmas’ (euro or drachma?) in order to contemplate …

The countdown started in the final run for the parliamentary elections on May 6th 2012. However given the ideological differences and the numerical difficulties that may block the formation of a stable government, political parties have already begun ton work on scenarios for the next day – or better say: for the next …

Is this a good or a bad sign? May 2012 Full Moon occurs on May 5th, just one day before Greeks will rush to cast a vote and elect a new government. This full moon occurs at the sign of Scorpio and near Libra. Scorpio has the reputation of some …

I am afraid this Troika, the lenders of Greece are always one step behind. Whether it is about the wages in Greece, or false predictions about recession, for example. Now the Troika seems to have not heard anything about the elections of May 6th or the blurred political balances and the …

Just one week before the May 6th elections and people seem unstoppably angry about the two big parties (socialist PASOK, conservative Nea Dimokratia). The parties themselves are allegedly in panic, while pollsters are puzzled over the blurre political climate. Sunday newspaper Proto Thema revealed that the rolling public opinion surveys that …

The upcoming elections in Greece offer the angry, frustrated and undecided voter a wide spectrum of choices. A whole of 36 political parties have submitted their applications to run for the parliamentary elections that will take place on May 6, 2012. Big parties, small parties, one-person parties, estalbished parties, fringe parties, …

While the general election campaign is in full speed, the latest public opinion polls destroy any political hopes for an absolute majority and the formation of  one-party government. Greece’s voters will most likely cast their vote pushed by the motivation to “punish” those parties that governed the country for almost four decades and …

Greece’s voters seem divided to an extreme. To such extreme that they may push ten political parties in the Greek parliament with their votes. According to latest public survey, conducted by Marc for private Alpha TV, conservative Nea Dimokratia remains first party in the choice of voters however it is …

Lack of interest on the part of diaspora Greeks to participate in the upcoming elections is forcing the Mitsotakis government to changes in the electoral law regardign the election of expatriates on the so-called “state ballots.” However, for this the government will need an agreement with the political parties of …

The conservative Greek government plans to lift some crucial restrictions regarding the eligibility criteria allowing Diaspora Greeks to exercise their right to vote in parliamentary elections. The changes are planned despite the fact that New Democracy passed the relevant legislation a year ago. Government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni said Monday noon …

At the anniversary of one year in power, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ruled out early elections. Speaking to Skai TV, the prime minister ruled out the prospect of early elections, saying they will be held at the end of the government’s four-year term. It would be “politically dishonest” to hold …

A rather uneblievalble public opinion poll claims that the change of the government in July has increased the Greeks’ libido and sexual performance. In fact, Greeks saw the positive changes in their sexual life already during the elections in July, the survey notes. The poll on behalf of the Andrology …

Polling stations for European, regional and local elections opened at 7 o’ clock Sunday for the 9,922,294 registered voters. 528,000 Greeks will vote for the first time. Among them are , 106,760 17-year-olds who will vote following a recent law amendment that lowered the voting age. 39,063 polling stations have …