ND, SYRIZA making inroads into KINAL territory

Developments at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) confirmed that Greece's political landscape is gradually reverting to the traditional bipolar system of yesteryear, a system that came to an abrupt end with the country's financial meltdown.

New Democracy and SYRIZA are now the two main players, while the political survival of the left-of-center Movement for Change alliance (KINAL) is at stake as the dominant duo are making inroads into the right and left of PASOK's latest political reincarnation.
The conservatives managed to hang on, putting the electoral collapse of May 2012 (when ND garnered a mere 18.8 percent of the vote) quickly behind them. PASOK, on the other hand, all but vanished. It may have recovered slightly considering the 4.7 percent it got in the 2014 election, but the political momentum does not appear to be in its favor. The party of Fofi...