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Yes, and my point is unless both Ciudadanos and Podemos get about 5% more between now and December (which I thought was quite likely until Ciudadanos started leaking support in the last couple of weeks), you're basically looking at a Grand Coalition.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 28th, 2015 at 02:19:29 PM EST
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Migeru:

you're basically looking at a Grand Coalition.

The same odd bedfellow routine Italy has with Renzi with Alfano as Internal Minister and the PD's unholy matrimony with the Right remnants of Berlu, Bossi and the P2 gang.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Jun 29th, 2015 at 08:33:00 PM EST
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Greek referendum open thread | 210 comments (210 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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