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The best case scenario if recent polls are to be trusted, is a coalition government between PASOK and the new Green party. But there are no polls done after the riots and the one that's underway shows (reportedly) that conservatives are bottoming out while the left (syriza) is benefiting from the fact that a. it had put the youth problem at the center of its political focus years ago and b.ND, KKE and LAOS all target the party as complicit with the rioters, which is such odious bullshit, that it has created an inverse effect especially among the younger voters (where SYRIZA's strength is anyway). But Syriza won't co-operate with PASOK unless there is some sort of minimum program with basic safeguards which PASOK won't agree with (i.e. SYRIZA wants the renationalization of some banks an increase in minimum wage and a withrdawal from Afghanistan). All this is speculation - we'll wait and see what the new political landscape will be after the riots.

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by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 08:32:38 PM EST
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