Syriza supporters optimistic about Alexis Tsipras’s vision, holding hope for a future without the shackles of austerity“It is the beginning of the end for austerity in Europe,” said Nicola Comentale, who had come from Italy specially for the occasion. “Finally, a people have been made their voices heard. This is a big, big moment – not just for Greece, for all of us.”Klafthmonos Square in central Athens, home to the Syriza election tent, was as packed at 1.30am on Monday morning – socialist anthems blaring from the loudspeakers, kebab stands multiplying – as it had been five hours earlier, when the first exit polls predicted a triumph for Alexis Tsipras’s radical leftist alliance. Continue reading...
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