SYRIZA party

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plans next week to make his first visit to Brussels since coming to power promising to renegotiate his country?s international bailout, an EU spokesman said Jan. 30.

Greek banks opeerating in Bulgaria are not threatened by the policies of the anti-austerity SYRIZA party, leading banker Levon Hampartzoumian said.

The results of the parliamentary elections in Greece on Jan. 25 were not a surprise. As predicted, an umbrella coalition of the far-left, the Syriza Party, came at the top with 36 percent of the vote, obtaining 149 seats in parliament, two short of an overall majority. The outgoing Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Party won 76 seats with 27 percent of the votes.

Greece is to have an anti-austerity government, Panos Kammenos, Independent Greeks, has told reporters after coalition talks with SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras in Athens.

Tsipras is due in the Presidency in Athens at 15:30 EET (13:30 GMT) on Monday and is tipped to become Greece's youngest ever Prime Minister at the age of 40.

Greece: Syriza two seats short of absolute majority

ATHENS -- The leftist Syriza party has won the early parliamentary election in Greece with 36.34 percent of the vote 149 of 300 seats in parliament.

These results, announced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Greece, show that the party lacks two seats for an absolute majority.

The euro sank to an 11-year low on Jan. 26 and Asian equities were muted after an anti-austerity party won Greece's election, throwing its international bailout into doubt and raising fears it could leave the eurozone.
 

Greece's anti-austerity Syriza party quickly formed a coalition government on Jan. 26 after its stunning election win that has set the heavily indebted country on a collision course with its creditors.
      
Syriza and its 40-year-old leader Alexis Tsipras took 149 seats in the 300-seat parliament in Sunday's election, heralding a new mood of anti-austerity defiance in Europe.

The victory of leftist SYRIZA party in the early parliamentary elections held in Greece have left European leaders divided in their assessment, with many fearing this could have negative repercussions in their own countries.

British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote on Twitter that "the Greek election will increase economic uncertainty across Europe."

Leftist SYRIZA party is to win 149 out of 300 seats in Greece's Parliament following early elections held Sunday, two seats short of a majority, according to official results cited by Greek news websites.

The figures show a total of seven parties have made it into Parliament, though this has to be confirmed by the electoral commission of Greece.

Leader of Greece's leftist SYRIZA party Alexis Tsipras has spoken to a cheering multitude in Athens following results of exit polls which give him a clear victory over ruling New Democracy.