Greece Votes: Syriza Set To Win But Neo-Nazis Top Among The Unemployed

Sunday, September 20, 2015
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
09/20/2015

Three months ago, when Greece held a dramatic referendum on the conditions of the country’s third bailout program, the world couldn’t get enough. Whether right or wrong, investors had come to believe that the fate of the financial universe hinged on the outcome of Greece’s fraught negotiations with creditors and despite the fact that the financial fallout from a potential Grexit had long since been thrust onto the shoulders of EMU taxpayers and away from the private sector, the market came to believe that a black swan event was just around the corner.

Fast forward to Sunday and Greeks are going to the polls again, only this time, no one seems to care. For those interested, we’ve included the full election preview below, but essentially what it comes down to is this:

The Syriza vision that resonated so well with voters in January has, in the space of just nine months, been relegated to the realm of “wishful thinking” and even if Tsipras wins, this is not the Tsipras who swept to power earlier this year and this version of Syriza has been watered down in the wake of the split which saw Panagiotis Lafazanis form his own, breakaway party last month.

In short, the IMF, Berlin, and Brussels got what they wanted – even if the fight was perhaps more difficult than they had imagined. Democracy has been undermined in Greece by the purse string and although Europe’s methods were more subtle than say, Turkey’s, the outcome is the same: a democratic election result that was seen as undesirable by those who ultimately control Europe was nullified and the will of the Greek people has been subverted.

Now, Greeks find themselves going to the polls facing a situation that will be familiar to many American voters – a choice between two parties that claim to be diametrically opposed, but who are actually all too similar.

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