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</font></div><div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 243);"><li class="hidden-xs" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px 0px 23px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.33;"><a data-ga-action="Home Headlines: Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/8/headlines/greek_snap_elections_hand_victory_to_conservative_party" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Greek Snap Elections Hand Victory to Conservative Party</font></a></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Like the traditional Greek song, in Athens “everything changes and everything stays the same”. Four months after Syriza’s victory, the parties that had governed since the overthrow of the military dictatorship — the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) and New Democracy (rightwing) — have been completely discredited. The first radical leftist government since the “mountain government” at the time of the German occupation is very popular.</span><br style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><br style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although the “troika”, hated because of its responsibility for the current economic disaster, is no longer mentioned, its three “institutions” — the European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) — continue their policies. With threats, blackmail and ultimatums, a new “troika” is imposing the same austerity on the government of Alexis Tsipras.</span><br style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><br style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With wealth generation down by 25% since 2010 and an unemployment rate of 27% (more than 50% for those under 25), Greece has an unprecedented social and humanitarian crisis. But despite the results of the January elections, which gave Tsipras a clear mandate to end austerity, the European Union continues to treat Greece as a naughty pupil who must be punished by the stern teachers in Brussels, to discourage daydreaming voters in Spain and elsewhere who still believe in the possibility of governments opposed to the German dogma.</span><br style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><br style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This situation is like Chile in the 1970s, when US president Richard Nixon was determined to topple Salvador Allende to prevent leftwing contagion in America’s backyard. “Make the economy scream,” said Nixon, and when it did, General Augusto Pinochet took over....</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div>