🇬🇷 Greek politics and elections

[Battista Minola 1616]

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the third prime minister in the last five to be the son or nephew of another Third Republic prime minister. I hate Greece.

[Battista Minola 1616]

What a terrible result for Syriza, which may lose every single district to ND. Also not a great day for Greek opinion polls.

Is Rodopi the only possible exception because it's where the remaining Muslim Turks live?

[Battista Minola 1616]

Varoufakis missing the threshold a second time in a row while three different far right parties and also Zoe Konstantopoulou make it... can this man ever catch a break?

[Battista Minola 1616]

After reading Stefanos Kasselakis's Wikipedia page and a few articles about him, I have to conclude that SYRIZA primary voters are the stupidest people on Earth. The whole thing looks like a grotesque parody of the (already silly enough) 2023 PD primaries. At least our "foreign Amerikan entryist" Elly Schlein has lived all her adult life in Italy and been an elected official for almost a decade!

[Battista Minola 1616]

So, I knew that Kyriakos Mitsoakis is related to the PM with the same surname (his dad Konstantinos Mitsoakis, PM 1990-1993), but I found out he's also the brother of Dora Bakoyannis (former Mayor of Athens and Foreign Minister) and the uncle of Kostas Bakoyannis (the current Mayor of Athens). Which is weird, but then Greek politics is infamous for being very Happy Families. And then... that his great-grand-uncle was Eleftherios Venizelos, arguably the founder of modern Greece and certainly the founder of the Venizelist tradition today represented by Pasok and Syriza. Like, this is Romanov levels of inbreeding. Imagine if Rishi Sunak's sister was, I don't know, Theresa May, his nephew was Sadiq Khan, his father was John Major and his distant uncle was David Lloyd George.

Not David Lloyd George, but his frenemy Herbert Henry Asquith has a great-granddaughter who is much more famous than most politicians.