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May 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Greeks heavily punished the traditional ruling parties, Pasok and New
Democracy, for supporting a 110 billion bail-out to save it from bankruptcy
and the austerity that Brussels and Berlin decreed should accompany it.
Minor parties from the Left and Right who opposed the recovery plan triumphed,
making the formation of a coalition government highly problematic.
The bail-out and Greece’s membership of the euro have been thrown into
jeopardy, but Mr Diamodis is not alone in thinking that order can come out
of the chaos ensuing from Sunday’s polls.
“Greeks are crazy in a way,” said Leonidas Antonakopoulos, sitting
in a café enjoying an afternoon coffee. “Most want to stay in euro
but don’t like what it takes to stay in Europe,” he said, referring to
the bail-out. A recent Gallup poll indeed showed that 72 per cent of Greeks
wanted to stay in the single currency.
“As you say in England, they want their pie and to eat it too,”
interjected his friend Constantinos, a civil servant.
“This might sound like a contradiction, but maybe it is not. Greeks voted
for a renegotiation of their debt. It may be realistic, it may be not. We
shall see,” added Mr Antonakopoulos.
Greek politicians and members of the public alike are hoping that their
creditors will see that their strictly monetarist medicine is killing the
patient. The election of Francois Hollande in France has given them
encouragement that the “pro-growth” view will gain more traction.
“This crisis is so volatile that things can change,” said Meletios
Stavrakis, who works for the EU in Luxembourg but came home to vote.
“There are other struggling economies like Portugal and Spain and
attitudes may change. Negotiations always depend on who is around the table.”
Yiannis Papayiannou, leaving a shift at the Hotel Amalia near the square, was
indifferent about which currency his country used.
“Personally I don’t care if we’re in the euro or if we go back to the
drachma. We have natural resources that have not been used. If we move in
the right political direction it doesn’t matter what coins we use.”
A mixture of anger, defiance and national pride led many voters away from the
monoliths of the political scene. Mr Papayiannou, 47, opted for Independent
Greeks, a breakaway party from New Democracy that was only formed a few
months ago but won 10 per cent of the vote.
Mr Diamodis voted for Syriza, the Leftwing coalition that stunned even its
supporters by finishing second.
Asked why Greeks should not pay for their mistakes, he said the politicians,
not the people were to blame for running up debt.
He maintained his country was not asking to live by different rules from the
Germans or the French. But he admitted: “We have the sun, we work at a
different rate, because we are different people. You can’t compare the two.”
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