Europe Watches as Greeks Vote for More Reform or Defiance

Greeks are voting Sunday in an election that will determine whether the country that triggered the euro-area debt crisis five years ago holds to the path of economic reform or challenges its creditors and sets a precedent for all of Europe.

The election contest pitches Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s New Democracy against opposition leader Alexis Tsipras’s Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza. Tsipras has pledged to win a writedown of Greek debt and to abandon budget constraints that were imposed in return for aid, goals which Samaras says risk Greece’s expulsion from the euro area.