Green Left TV: Left comes a close second in Greek elections

Peter Boyle
June 18, 2012
Issue 
926
World
Video: Left comes a close second in Greek elections. GreenLeftOnline/YouTube.

Afrodity Giannakis, Green Left correspondent in Greece and an activist in SYRIZA, gives her first impressions of the result of the June 17 election where the conservative New Democracy beat the left coalition SYRIZA to the highers vote by just 3% of votes. Younger voters voted strongly for the left while older voters tended to vote conservative.

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