{"id":48047,"date":"2015-09-22T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48047"},"modified":"2015-09-22T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:53:21","slug":"why-did-greeks-just-reelect-alexis-tsipras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/22\/why-did-greeks-just-reelect-alexis-tsipras\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Greeks Just Reelect Alexis Tsipras?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601504.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/20150922Uprising\/2015_09_22_Harry_Konstantinidis.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601504.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/20150922Uprising\/2015_09_22_Uprising.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Harry Konstantinidis<\/strong>, a faculty member in economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greek elections resulted in a second win for Syriza Party leader Alexis Tspiras on Sunday. The embattled Prime Minister had faced growing uncertainty over his mandate after a stunning victory on an anti-austerity platform earlier this year and then a capitulation to creditors.<\/p>\n<p>The snap elections were a major risk, and pollsters had been unable to predict a clear victory. But Mr. Tspiras&#8217; party emerged with a plurality of votes. Still, only 56% of Greek voters turned out to cast ballots \u2013 much lower than in the two elections earlier this year. In his victory speech, Tspiras said, &#8220;The mandate that the Greek people gave us is crystal clear: to get rid of the wickedness and the regime of corruption and intertwined interests that have ruled the country for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Syriza will have 145 seats in the parliament, out of 300. This is only 4 fewer than what it had when it first came to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Harry Konstantinidis, a faculty member in economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Greek elections resulted in a second win for Syriza Party leader Alexis Tspiras on Sunday. The embattled Prime Minister had faced growing uncertainty over his mandate after a stunning victory on an anti-austerity platform earlier this year and then a capitulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48069,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48047\/revisions\/48069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}