Greece's Radical Leftist Syriza Wins Election, Tsipras Pledges To End Austerity

With about 80 percent of votes counted, Syriza was set to win 149 seats in the 300 seat parliament, with 36.2 percent of the vote, around eight points ahead of the conservative New Democracy party of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.

Leader of anti- austerity party Syriza Alexis Tsipras delivered a victory speech at Propilia Square in Athens on Sunday evening. “Greece has turned a new page, Greece leaves behind the austerity of destruction, fear and authoritarianism, leaves behind five years of humiliation and suffering – proceeds with optimism, hope and dignity and steady steps in a changing Europe,” said Tsipras to thousands of people at the square.

“The mandate of the Greek people, your mandate, today cancels in an undisputed manner the memorandums of austerity and destruction. The mandate of the Greek people makes the troika a thing of past in our common European framework.”




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Monday, January 26 2015
Huge crowd
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Speech by Tsipras
Tsipras greets people
Celebration
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