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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Greeks expected to elect leftist Syriza party in Sunday vote

ATHENS — After five years of extreme austerity prescribed to treat an epidemic of debt, a battered but defiant Greece appeared poised Sunday to reject the medicine.With millions of voters turning out, from graffiti-scarred lanes in the Parthenon’s shadow to islands lapped by aqua-green waves, the country was expected to deliver a historic win to Syriza, a radical leftist party that could put Greece on a collision course with the rest of Europe.Read full article


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