"The fact that Popular Unity was not able to pass the 3% threshold for representation in Parliament..."
Correction: it was not able to pass the 54% of 3% threshold. You cannot change measuring rods in midstream. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Paul Zarembka <[email protected]> wrote: > I found this factual analysis interesting: > > "What has distorted the result was the much larger numbers abstaining > this time round. In January 37% did not vote, while this time it was 43.5% > and of those who went to the polling stations 2.5% cast a blank vote. Thus > the total not casting a vote was 46%, almost half the population. We should > not forget that according to Article 51 of the Greek Constitution “The > exercise of the right to vote is compulsory”. It is in spite of this legal > obligation that almost half the population refused to vote. This shows the > depth of disappointment among a wide layer of the electorate. > > "Back in January some right-wing commentators, in an attempt to belittle > the then SYRIZA result, pointed out that it was 36% of the 63% who voted, > making it less than 23% of the electorate. That was when SYRIZA stood on > the Thessaloniki programme of reforms and presented itself as an > anti-Troika, anti-memorandum, anti-austerity programme. If we applied the > same logic today, we would have to say that 35.46% of 54% means only 19.14% > of the electorate voted for SYRIZA this time. Furthermore, those parties > who voted in favour of the new Memorandum on July 20th lost a total of 1.1 > million votes." > --> > http://www.marxist.com/greece-syriza-wins-elections-but-this-is-no-mandate-for-austerity.htm > > The fact that Popular Unity was not able to pass the 3% threshold for > representation in Parliament was not a result I expected, nor had the > published polls. It is hard for me to discuss an explanation: while being > a wholly new formation without a track record, I'd also need to know more > of the character of its campaign. > > Paul Zarembka > > -- > ==== *Research in Political Economy > <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230>* (since 1977) | > Editor's *webpage <http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/%7Ezarembka>* > *Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy* (2015), R. Desai, ed. > *Sraffa and Althusser Reconsidered; Neoliberalism Advancing* (2014) > *Contradictions: Finance, Greed, and Labor Unequally Paid* (2013) > *The Hidden History of 9-11 > <http://catalog.sevenstories.com/products/hidden-history-of-911>* (2nd > ed., Seven Stories Press) > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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