Syriza is leading in polls after gaining support among millions of Greeks who are unemployed or facing povertyWithin minutes of the Athens parliament failing to elect a president, Alexis Tsipras, the man most likely to become Greece’s next prime minister, said the country had experienced “a historic day”.For the first time since the foundation of the modern Greek state nearly 200 years ago, radical leftists – marginalised, tortured and tormented for the best part of the 20th century – were on course to assume power. He said Greeks should rejoice. The government that had put the country through an assault course of austerity would soon be over. Continue reading...
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