Greek election: Conservative party regains control, ousts left-wing PM

[TomSea]

Greek election: Conservative party regains control, ousts left-wing PM
By Elena Becatoros, Derek Gatopoulos | Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece – Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis comfortably won Greece's parliamentary elections Sunday, delivering a stinging blow to leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after a tumultuous four years in office as the country struggled through a crippling financial crisis.

With more than 90% of votes counted, Mitsotakis' New Democracy party had 39.8% of the votes, compared to 31.5% for Tsipras' left-wing Syriza party.


Greek opposition New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis waves to his supporters after win in parliamentary elections at the New Democracy headquarters in Athens, on Sunday, July 7, 2019.  (AP)

The extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, founded by neo-Nazi supporters, narrowly failed to make the 3% threshold needed to enter parliament — a huge fall of support for a party that had become the third-largest in the Greek legislature during the country's financial crisis.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/greece-election-conservative-party-regains-control-ousts-left-wing-pm

Greece sounds like one of those situations where no matter who wins, the doldrums will continue but maybe there's a chance of them getting better.  Per the last paragraph, good if the neo-Nazi types lost ground.

[truth_seeker]

Neo-nazis below 3% but the media portrays anybody to the right of the comunists, as "far-right" extremists.