That would be the "New Democracy" rightwing party. They ruled Greece before Pasok (the "socialists") took over, handing Pasok a bomb that exploded in Pasok's faces. "New Democracy" practiced financial and accounting fraud on a massive scale. Yet instead of being put in jail, they're now forming a "new" government, with the same old Establishment gang (themselves, Pasok, and a trick-party (called "Democratic Left") ostensibly to Pasok's left that exists to steal votes from the actual leftists of the "extreme" "hard left" "far left" "radical" (as the capitalist media characterizes them) Syriza party.
Even a former Greek finance minister pointed out how New Democracy created the crisis with its venal behavior in a BBC interview after the "victory." So it's no secret- except in the U.S. (and) Greek media.
"New Democracy" won its great "victory" with 29.7% of the vote. (Syriza got 26.9%- so they really got creamed by "New Democracy!") The New York Times, like the capitalist media generally, hailed this "victory" with the deceptive headline "Greek Voters Choose Party Supporting Bailout," plastered across most of the top of page A1 on June 18th. A large photo of the "New Democracy" boss, Antonis Samaras, accompanies the headline. It shows him grinning and making a fist. If you examine the "crowd" in the photo, you see it consists almost entirely of news photographers and bodyguards. (The BBC reported that there was no victory rally, no one was there. The Times chose to deceive with the photo and headline.)
Low turnout, under 30% if the votes, doesn't sound like "Greek Voters" chose "New Democracy,"
The Financial Times is willing to be more honest, as it's aimed at a capitalist elite that needs a more realistic view of the world than the NYT is willing to provide. Its headline on the story (same day) was "Samaras scrapes to Greek win." Precisely.
By the way, the sleazy Samaras caused the previous Pasok government to fall by refusing to go along with the "bailout/austerity" plan. Now he claims he'll "renegotiate" the terms a bit, by asking for more time to pay up. There is still an adamant refusal by all parties to admit the obvious, that GREECE IS BANKRUPT, and has been for some time. (Thanks especially to "New Democracy" fraudulent bookkeeping the last time they were in power.) Their "victory" can be chalked up in part to the Greek media's scare campaign against Syriza, coupled with the Greeks' desire to stay in the eurozone (an impossibility, although even Syriza promised to retain the euro).
"New Democracy" does get an extra 50 seats in Parliament for coming in first, under the screwy rules of Greek "democracy." ("Democracy" in the west is code for "bourgeois class dictatorship.") The same gang that destroyed the Greek economy is now supposedly going to rescue Greece. Good luck with that, Greek people.
Oh, and what's with this business of saying that an economy with 22% unemployment (the admitted rate), that is making people work without pay, that is running out of medicine, that can't even feed mental patients anymore (BBC interview with a Greek mental hospital administrator 6/20), and that's been shrinking for five years now, is in a "recession"? That's a depression. Dishonest asshole capitalist propagandists.
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