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U.S. NEWSMonday 21 September 2015
Greece:
Left-wing Syriza wins vote, will form coalition government
ELENA BECATOROS With 66 percent of the Left-wing Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras, left, embraces applause from dancing,
DEREK GATOPOULOS vote counted, Syriza stood cheering Syriza support-
Associated Press at 35.4 percent of the leader of the right-wing Independent Greeks party Panos ers in central Athens. The
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — vote and 145 seats in the Independent Greeks were
A jubilant Alexis Tsipras 300-member parliament, Kammenos after his general election victory, at Syriza’s party’s in seventh place with 3.6
vowed to continue fighting followed by the conserva- percent of the vote and 10
for his country’s pride and tive New Democracy with main electoral center in Athens, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. parliamentary seats.
to quickly form a coalition 28.3 percent and the Nazi- “I thank you from the bot-
government after his left- inspired Golden Dawn in Tsipras said he would renew his partnership with Kammenos in tom of my heart for this
wing Syriza party comfort- third place with 7 percent. great victory, a clear victo-
ably won Greece’s third Abstention was particularly coalition government. ry, a victory of the people,”
national vote this year on high, at nearly 45 percent Tsipras said. “I feel vindi-
Sunday. in an election-weary coun- (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) cated because the Greek
The result was a resounding try with a traditionally high people gave us a clear
success for Tsipras’ high-risk voter turnout. cepted similar proposals as with his previous coalition mandate to continue our
gamble when he resigned It was the third time this struggle, inside and outside
as prime minister last month year Greeks have voted, part of the new bailout. partner, the right-wing In- the country to lift our coun-
and triggered an early after the January elec- try’s pride.”
election, barely seven tion that brought Tsipras to Six seats shy of an absolute dependent Greeks of Pa- The 41-year-old vowed to
months into his four-year power on an anti-bailout govern for a full four-year
term, in order to face down platform, and a July refer- majority, Tsipras said he nos Kammenos, who joined term — something few
an internal Syriza rebellion endum he called urging Greek governments have
over his policy U-turn to ac- Greeks to reject creditor re- would form a government him on stage to rapturous managed, particularly
cept painful austerity mea- form proposals, which they since the country became
sures in return for Greece’s resoundingly did — shortly dependent on internation-
third international bailout. before Tsipras then ac- al bailouts five years agoq
Russian opposition holds large anti-Putin protest
KATHERINE JACOBSEN elections. They complained drew as many as 100,000 not a czar, he’s a bureau- ernment where the leader
Associated Press of political repression and people in the winter of crat,” said she came to the does not change. “It’s not
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s official corruption. 2011-2012. protest even though she no like your wife that you’re
beleaguered opposition Opposition leader Alexei The protests were set off longer sees a way forward. married to your whole life,”
drew several thousand Navalny called on Russians by parliamentary elections She said the government said 65-year-old Vladimir
people on Sunday to a not to give up hope that won by the Kremlin party will “put more people in Semyonovich, who gave
protest rally in an outlying they can make a differ- through what independent jail” and Russia’s economy his patronymic but not his
Moscow neighborhood to ence. He said the opposi- observers said was wide- will continue to suffer. last name.
decry the 15-year rule of tion’s mission was “to work spread fraud and by Putin’s “There is no investment. The protest was relegated
President Vladimir Putin. with those who don’t be- decision to return to the They are stealing and steal- to the southeastern Mary-
Protesters denounced the lieve” that anything can be presidency for a third term ing and stealing,” Yego- ino neighborhood be-
Kremlin-controlled political changed. after four years as prime rova said. “We don’t have cause the city government
system that keeps Putin in The Kremlin intensified its minister. hope anymore.” refused to allow the op-
power and prevents the crackdown on the opposi- Irina Yegorova, 50, who Protesters said it was wrong position to rally in central
opposition from running in tion after anti-Putin protests held a sign saying “Putin is to have a system of gov- Moscow.q
