Greece will vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday, nearly one month after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was forced to call a snap vote after parliament failed to agree on a new president.
Polls indicate that radical left-wing party Syriza is set to take the most votes. Whether Syriza gains an outright majority or forms a ruling coalition, the party’s firebrand leader Alexis Tsipras looks set to become prime minister of the troubled European nation.Samaras’ popularity has declined significantly since coming into office in 2012, amid a strict austerity program imposed by Greece’s “troika” creditors, made up of eurozone countries, the …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
