WELL IT IS OVER. AND THERE HAS BEEN A BLOW OUT IN GREECE!:
AUSTERITY ECONOMICS THE WORLD OVER SUFFER MASSIVE REJECTION AND DEFEAT!
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Almost 70% results are in
05-07-2015 22:55
Registered 6.563.734
Reporting 69,75 %
Voted 61,13 %
Invalid/Blank 5,74 %
NO 61,50 %
Yes 38,50 %
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3:24PMEDT:
Some fun tweets from link listed below:
Christopher Silver @silverscotland 1h1 hour ago
"EU shocked as orthodoxy that privatises gain & socialises loss turns out not to be that popular at the ballot box" #Greferendum
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Arianna Huffington @ariannahuff 8m8 minutes ago
So apparently if you want to influence a vote, condescension and contempt don't work. Who knew? #Greferendum
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Everyone online is acting like this has been won by a landslide for the NO (OXI) at an almost unheard of 61% - 48% voting with 57% of the vote in - 3:19pmEDT.
Now, reflections on what this win means, are coming in. From the Guardian (my bold):
The Green party has hailed tonight’s referendum as a decisive vote against austerity:
Caroline Lucas MP, who represents the British south coast constituency of Brighton Pavilion, says the eurozone must now accept that Greece needs debt relief:
“The Greek people have made a decision which must now be respected. This referendum has seen EU states do their very best to undermine the democratic will of the Greek people but it’s time to draw a line under the past and move onwards.
“History shows us that countries can escape crippling debt in a just way. In 1953, at London Conference, Greece was among the European nations signing a deal which allowed for the cancellation of German debt, to enable the country to grow again after the destruction of the Second World War. Europe needs to come together to offer the Greeks a deal which allows their country to be rebuilt.”
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ORIGINAL DIARY:
The Results of the Referendum in Greece are coming in.
The Guardian has a LIVE RESULTS
http://www.theguardian.com/...
Another source of information about the results can be found:
on Twitter at #Greferendum
I believe that this is the biggest OWS rebellion against the global bankolocusts and I hope that Greece resoundingly votes OXI.... NO, NO, NO!
Oh, and if you haven't done it already, I highly recommend this excellent diary by gjohnsit,
27 Centuries later, Athens has come full circle Really, really well done.
So far, at 1:45 EDT, the results appear to be approx 60% OXI, approx 40% NAI.
If there is anyone who would like to live blog it, here is a diary.
UPDATE 1: (h/t quince for link.)
GREECE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
officially tracks the voting.
UPDATE 2:
(From Guardian at 2:02 PM,EDT
8m ago
13:53
Helena Smith Helena Smith
In Athens, Greece’s chief negotiator, Euclid Tsakalotos, is predicting that the government will be able to reach an agreement with creditors very quickly.
Helena Smith is hearing that a mini-cabinet meeting may well be held later tonight – amid talk that a new negotiating team may be assembled by the leftist-led government.
Asked why he believed the government could cut a deal with creditors so soon – when for the past five months talks have been deadlocked – Tsakalotos told STAR TV:
The first thing is that the IMF report [released last week] proves that the debt [load] is not viable and secondly that there is a new popular mandate as it would seem from the apparent result of the referendum.
Updated at 6.56pm BST
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9m ago
13:52
UPDATE #3: (my bold)
Some good tweets from the Twitter link listed above:
Damian Mac Con Uladh @damomac 2m2 minutes ago
Former foreign minister Dora #Bakoyannis has called on conservative New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras to resign! #Greferendum
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Joop Hazenberg @joophazenberg 3m3 minutes ago
The #greferendum is a huge mess, but it clearly exposed the fundamental flaw of EU integration: distorted power balance EU vs. member states
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UPDATE #4 (2:21PMEDT)
16m ago (from The Guardian; my bold.)
14:04
Official projection: no side to win with 61%
Greece’s interior ministry has released an official projection, showing that the no side is set to win by 61%.
That is a landslide result for the government, which had urged people to reject the bailout proposals made by lenders.