Greece parliamentary election - September 20, 2015

[Bacon King]

Why did Potami lose so much, BTW? You'd have thought Tsipras' acceptance of austerity would have proved them right.

After reading some comments and doing some thinking:

Three effects:

1) sh**tty campaign + uninspired leader - especially debate performance.

2) Losing votes to Pasok, which then lost moderate left wingers to new "responsible" and moderated Syriza (leftwards transfer).

3) Losing votes directly to moderate Syriza.

4) BKs idea that they lost the non-ideological protest vote to Union of Centrists.

My hypothesis is a mix between 1 and 2 were the main factors.

another major factor in To Potami's downfall is the dissociation between their claim to be a party of technocrats but ran a campaign of nothing but one-line zingers

[Bacon King]

I imagine some Potami to ND transfer, under the new, erm, moderat leader.

I really hope Meimarakis stays on as Indefinite Interim Leader because it's hilarious to see the parliamentary opposition led by an angry old curmudgeon with such a strong personal hatred of the PM

[Bacon King]

Honestly just think of this as less of an election and more of a really complicated government shuffle and it makes more sense