Greece election results: Landslide for centre-right New Democracy after Syriza concedes defeat

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1. The inevitable result of Syriza's turning its back on its anti-austerity platform, and going IMF

As former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis put it:

Lest we forget, it was immediately after the Greek people’s magnificent NO vote (on the 2015 Greek bailout referendum) that Mr. Tsipras invited the leaders of New Democracy and pro-austerity forces to help him convert the NO vote into a YES.

Thus, a referendum that had the capacity to confine New Democracy to the dustbin of history was annulled and the people overthrown by an alliance of Tsipras and New Democracy.

Is it any wonder, once Tripras passed every austerity measure and privatisation bill demanded of him by the troika with the implicit and explicit support of New Democracy, that New Democracy is back?

That said, All the Best to Mr. Mitsotakis. He certainly has his work cut out for him.