LIVE: Syriza looks to form coalition with Independent Greeks

[EC]

Greece’s leftist Syriza party will seek to form a government with the Independent Greeks, its former coalition partner, a Syriza source said on Sunday after early national election results put the party in the lead.

Official results showed that with more than 30 percent of Sunday’s votes counted, Syriza were on 35.3 percent, against 28.15 percent for rivals New Democracy.

Based on that calculation, Syriza would gain 144 seats in the 300-member parliament, and New Democracy 75. The Independent Greeks would get 10 votes, potentially giving a Syriza-Independent Greeks alliance a narrow majority.

http://www.euronews.com/2015/09/20/syriza-leads-ert-exit-poll-after-greek-election/

Live page - vote count updated as it comes in.

[DCPatriot]

LOL!   A grand plan and scheme which will only result in the final nails to the Greek 'coffin'.....assuming "Left" is the same definition in Greece as it is in the USA.   

[EC]

Depends if Germany accepts the result. The Greek people have voted the same party in each of the three elections. Germany doesn't like it and insists on fresh elections every single time.

[DCPatriot]

Depends if Germany accepts the result. The Greek people have voted the same party in each of the three elections. Germany doesn't like it and insists on fresh elections every single time.

Is that how the European Union is set up?   That a 'leader' country can overrule a 'State' election?

[EC]

Originally, no. Nation States were independant entities under the EU umbrella.

Sound familiar?

In practice though, Germany, usually with France's willing and eager co-operation, calls the shots for the weaker economies (and said shots are to the benefit of the German economy first, the EU economy second, and the Nation's economy if they're bleep lucky.)

They pulled the same shit in Italy - just getting bolder now.

[DCPatriot]

Originally, no. Nation States were independant entities under the EU umbrella.

Sound familiar?

In practice though, Germany, usually with France's willing and eager co-operation, calls the shots for the weaker economies (and said shots are to the benefit of the German economy first, the EU economy second, and the Nation's economy if they're bleep lucky.)

They pulled the same shit in Italy - just getting bolder now.

Thanks for the education, EC!       

My daughter's thesis at Princeton (2002) was on the European Union.

Title was....

The European Court of Justice
as a Constitutional Court for Europe:
Rethinking the Myth of a Sui Generis Self-Aggrandizing
Court of Justice and Affirming ECJ Supremacy 

Tried getting through it a few times and gave up!      Made my head hurt.