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Patriarch of Constantinople
09-21-2007, 02:03
Well, September 16th, 2007, Greece held it's Parliament elections to vote for the 300 members. The Greek New Democracy won 41.84%. The Panhellic Socialist Movement won with 38.10%.

Great day for Greece.

http://ekloges.ypes.gr/pages_en/index.html
CountArach
09-21-2007, 06:00
And Conservatives continue their dominance over the world...

*Mutters to self* One day Comrade, it shall be our turn.
Crazed Rabbit
09-21-2007, 06:12
You had your turn, CA. Problem was, your countries kept on crashing and burning. Yet the capitalists live on. Coincidence? I think not.

CR
CountArach
09-21-2007, 06:29
Yeah, but I remain hopeful for the future... hope is all we have left. That and our arms stockpile that no one knows about...
Ice
09-21-2007, 06:58
You had your turn, CA. Problem was, your countries kept on crashing and burning. Yet the capitalists live on. Coincidence? I think not.

CR

To be fair CR, that's not entirely true. I'm sure the socialism Count Arch has in mind resembles little of what was practice in most of those countries you speak of.
HoreTore
09-21-2007, 07:17
*Mutters to self* One day Comrade, it shall be our turn.

Bah. It's our turn here already, and has been for 2 years. And it'll be another four years in 2009 :smash:

You're just living in the wrong side of the planet...
CountArach
09-21-2007, 08:18
To be fair CR, that's not entirely true. I'm sure the socialism Count Arch has in mind resembles little of what was practice in most of those countries you speak of.
Indeed very different, but this is getting off topic...


You're just living in the wrong side of the planet...
Tell me about it...
HoreTore
09-21-2007, 08:25
To get this on topic again:

What are the policies of the "New Democracy"-party? I assume the socialist party is the standard labour/social democrat party...

And how will they form their government? Will they form a minority government, or ally with another party to gain majority? And which of those parties will form a government?
Odin
09-21-2007, 13:20
Two questions about Greek politics which do not include the fires.

1. whats this business about Macedonia? I caught a quip of it on BBC news, can a greek or an EU member expand on this?

2. Whats the new governments official policy on Cyprus/Turkey?
Sigurd
09-21-2007, 13:38
Bah. It's our turn here already, and has been for 2 years. And it'll be another four years in 2009
:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:
Kralizec
09-21-2007, 14:24
1. whats this business about Macedonia? I caught a quip of it on BBC news, can a greek or an EU member expand on this?

I don't know if there have been any new developments on this lately, but Greece doesn't like that this particular country uses the name "Macedonia".
The Greek see this as a claim of heritage to the ancient kingdom of the same name, and some modern Macedonian nationalists do explicitly claim descendence. In reality, the inhabitants of the Republic of Macedonia are a mix between Bulgars and Slavs and their language is closely related to Bulgarian. Obviously they weren't around yet in the time of Philip or Alexander the Great.
One example is the flag they used in the early 90'ties wich depicted the "Vergina sun", wich is thought to be the symbol of the royal family of the ancient kingdom. Greece didn't like it, and after a long dispute they finally changed it.
Odin
09-21-2007, 17:44
I don't know if there have been any new developments on this lately, but Greece doesn't like that this particular country uses the name "Macedonia".
The Greek see this as a claim of heritage to the ancient kingdom of the same name, and some modern Macedonian nationalists do explicitly claim descendence. In reality, the inhabitants of the Republic of Macedonia are a mix between Bulgars and Slavs and their language is closely related to Bulgarian. Obviously they weren't around yet in the time of Philip or Alexander the Great.
One example is the flag they used in the early 90'ties wich depicted the "Vergina sun", wich is thought to be the symbol of the royal family of the ancient kingdom. Greece didn't like it, and after a long dispute they finally changed it.

If I recall wasnt Macedonia a province of Yugoslavia?

I do realize that ancient Macedonia was centered around Thrace (well i think I remember it that way, havent looked at that period in a long time), but Macedonia the province has exsisted since the end of WWII.

Were there objections then? Forgive my ignorance this really is a new one on me (greece's objection)
Patriarch of Constantinople
09-22-2007, 00:29
Two questions about Greek politics which do not include the fires.

1. whats this business about Macedonia? I caught a quip of it on BBC news, can a greek or an EU member expand on this?

2. Whats the new governments official policy on Cyprus/Turkey?

1. Greece still is disputing the naming policy, but it has been relatively quiet after the flag issue.

2. The New Democracy is not new in control of Greece, it's been in power for a while. Our stance in Turkey hasn't changed, neither has Cyprus.
HoreTore
09-22-2007, 06:47
:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

Laugh all you want to, you know it's going to happen ~;)

Anyway, it's either a red government or nothing it all.... God knows the parties on ze other side can't agree on anything except not being socialists...
CountArach
09-23-2007, 00:45
Hey, I just found these maps:

http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/g/greece/greece2004maps.shtml

that show the electoral result percentages for each of the 3 main parties and I noticed that Central Greece has a huge popular base for the Left-wing parties. I was wondering if there was any particular reason for that?