Syriza betrayed its principles – and the Greek people. Its days are numbered | Alexander Kazamias
by Alexander Kazamias from Economics | The Guardian on (#4JJH2)
Alexis Tsipras's party promised to fight EU-imposed austerity, but instead embraced it. Sunday's polls will punish them
In January 2015, progressives the world over hailed Syriza's general election victory as a rejection of EU-imposed austerity and the dawn of a new era for Greece. Four years on, Alexis Tsipras's once radical party goes to the polls on Sunday as a dead man walking - it's now a confused political mishmash of leftists, social democrats, conservatives and rightwing populists that defends the very neoliberal policies Syriza once threatened to destroy the eurozone over.
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