Greek Election Scenarios: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Political parties wrap up campaign ahead of Sept. 20 vote
- Polls show razor-thin lead for Alexis Tsipras's Syriza party
Why You Should Care About Greece's Election
This article is for subscribers only.
Greece’s election remains too close to call as a three-week campaign wraps up on Friday with no clear front-runner in a vote that may put Europe’s most indebted state on course for thorny coalition talks as of next week.
Opinion polls show Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party and Evangelos Meimarakis’s conservative New Democracy party running neck and neck ahead of Sunday’s vote. With a fragmented parliament and no apparent winner, Greece risks being dragged into difficult coalition talks that could delay the implementation of measures required by creditors in exchange for emergency loans, including for the recapitalization of banks. That’s a delay Greece can ill afford.