Greek Socialists Win in a Landslide

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/world/europe/05greece.html?_r=1&hp
Greek Socialists Win in a Landslide


ATHENS — The Greek Socialist party won national elections here Sunday, trouncing a center-right government crippled by corruption scandals and a growing economic crisis.

With 65 percent of Greece’s 10 million votes counted, the Socialist Pasok party was leading with 43.7 percent of the vote compared with 34.6 percent for the center-right New Democracy party, a margin expected to give the Socialists their largest margin of victory ever and a comfortable majority in Parliament.

“Today we set off together to build the Greece we want and need. We have no time to waste,” Socialist leader George Papandreou said in his victory speech. “We want it, we can do it, we will succeed.”

“Nothing will be easy,” he added. “But I will always be honest and upfront to the Greeks.”

In conceding defeat, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said he had failed to convince Greeks to accept the two years of austerity measures he had called for to steer the country out of its economic crisis. “The voters did not approve of this policy. It was their choice, and I respect it,” he said.

but can we has sochulizt party nao? =/

:wow: