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Greece : Syriza wins the elections

by Webster G. Tarpley

Syriza-Led Coalition Takes Power in Greece on Mass Traction Economic Demands to Roll Back Austerity; Prime Minister Tsipras Demands “New Deal” for Europe; IMF Privatizations Halted; Re-Hiring of Public Workers Starts with Cleaning Ladies; Finance Minister Varoufakis Rebuffs “Anti-European,” “Rotten” Bankers’ Troika; Karamanlis Best Bet for Presidency; CIA, NATO Eye New 1967 Coup; Russia Should Offer $5 Billion Loan to Stabilize First Leftist Government in 3,000 Years; Mobilize for Syriza; Pinkney Sentencing Feb. 24

**Kostas Karamanlis of the European People’s Party**

The ability of Alexis Tsipras and Syriza to win an election and form a government within hours has stunned the Berlin neo-Brüning austerity clique dominated by the vindictive German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, Merkel’s grey eminence.

Tsipras has wisely formed a principled coalition with the conservative anti-austerity Independent Greeks of Panos Kammenos, who is now Defense Minister, showing that he is not a prisoner of the absurd left-right schema, and does not intend to let ethnocultural wedge issues block the immediate measures for economic recovery without which no problems can be solved.

According to Athens political observer Michael Chiotinis, Tsipras would now be well advised to back another conservative, Kostas Karamanlis, for President of Greece — as another step towards a de facto national unity government to strengthen the hand of Athens in the coming clashes with the infamous Troika of International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank/Bundesbank, and the Juncker-Moscovici European Commission.

Webster G. Tarpley