Tag Archives: Greek elections 2012

A hand-grenade was discovered outside private SKAI TV studios in Neo Faliro suburb of South Athens on Sunday noon. The grenade, apparently of  Russian defensive F1-type was discovered before it exploded. Explosive specialists, fire-brigades and anti-terror police were dispatched to Skai studios, while the traffic on surrounding streets and avenues was halted. According …

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A provocative fake Twitter claiming to be from KKE triggered the rage of the Greek Communist Party as it urged people to vote for… SYRIZA. “We repeat, today we support and vote the people’s party. SYRIZA” fake @KKEgr said in a tweep.  General Secretary of KKE, Aleka Papariga denounced the fake account and talked …

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Incredible scenes occurred on Sunday morning as several dozens of TV crews and photographers tried to capture SYRIZA-leader Alexis Tsipras casting his vote in Kypseli district of Athens. The zealous journos almost entered together with Tsipras into the voting booth…  Video: Tsipras seized by journos embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt After casting his …

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Internet users from Greece are able to admire the Greek Elections 2012 logo created by Google. As the rest of the world cannot see it, here it is….

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  Greek Elections 2012 – Here are the final results according  to Interior Ministry and voting processing system Singular Logic. The results refer to 100.oo% counting of the votes. From the 9,949,401 registered voters only 65,10% casted their votes. This has to do also with the fact the voters’ lists include those living abroad, …

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Leader of conservative Nea Dimocratia, Antonis Samaras, returns the mandate to form a coalition government after meeting with three political leaders proved fruitless. “There is no common ground,” Samaras told reporters after he concluded the meetings with potential government partners, just five hours after he was appointed. Samaras said that he called the …

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Leader of Democratic Left, Fotis Kouvelis, implied he may be willing to a coalition government and seems as if he is in stand-by but depending on what other parties would agree upon. Speaking after the meeting with Samaras Kouvelis said, “A covered ND-PASOK government would not be in harmony with people’s …

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PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos tabled Antonis Samaras five conditions for the forming of a coalition government:  1. Coalition government with EU-oriented parties, especially SYRIZA, Democratic Left and ND.  2. PM to be a person of broader acceptance prefrably someone who fits the new order. 3. A minimum programme agreement, i.e. to …

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The meeting between the first and second winners of Greek elections 2012 ended in 24 minutes, making clear there was no common ground for a coalition government between conservative Nea Dimocratia and left-wing SYRIZA. “Samaras’ plan is opposite to ours, the austerity he signed for was rejected by majority,” Alexis Tsipras said after …

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Winner of Greek Elections 2012 Antonis Samaras has been appointed by the President of the Republic to form a government.  As Samaras achieved only 18.85% of the votes but failed by far to secure the absolute majority, Karolos Papoulias assigned him with the mandate to lead exploratory talks in order to …

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With an unprecedented power angry and frustrated voters overturned the Greek political system right from the grounds. The results are not only a slap in the face of the bipartisanship of conservative Nea Democratia and socialist PASOK. It is also a strong message against the hardships of the Memorandum of Understanding, …

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Officials from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund said Sunday that Greece must adhere strictly to its austerity program–that includes taking new measures in June–signaling that there was little room for a new Greek government to renegotiate the country’s bailout terms. Instead, more than 60% of the popular …

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 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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