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when cities are swept to their first
electoral victory in January it sent
waves of optimism throughout
Greece a month later Vice news was in
Athens to see whether that optimism has
transformed into a
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reality for the past 10 months cleaning
ladies who worked for the state and had
been stacked have been protesting their
dismissal by camping outside here a
finance ministry building CA had pledged
to hire them as soon as it was elected
to government while we're here to find
out what's happening cuz they're still
camped outside the building for
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Sera they came to power promising a lot
of things to a lot of
people and most of the market
participants are pretty sure even more
today that's impossible that you can't
deliver what you've just promised people
here we've got the elections elections
were bad because we knew that there was
going to be uncertainty series are being
absolutely part of it so they need money
we have a situation where Sira has put
themselves in a corner because they've
argued x with their electorate who have
voted them to power and they've gone to
our European Partners people had lent us
a ton of money and they basically asked
ABCDE and their answer was sorry can't
do they will have to come back to Athens
and they will say guys this is the best
deal we could actually get so you know
we have have one government that it's
box itself in one corner Vis its
electorate and it's box itself in
another Corner Vis A the people that are
the only people that are actually
willing to lend it money so something
has to
give we joined one of the first ciesa
party meetings to see how news of a
4month loan extension with the EU would
be
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met
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for prime minister just addressed this
party explaining exactly what this
position has been for the past month how
they the
for and the war they've been at really
he needs to his party it's really
important because they've been voices of
descent within it so
far we have stopped austerity for at
least the next four months how is that a
success it is a success because
austerity is a one-way road today in
Europe as you know but we still have it
we still have it of course this is an
uphill battle we just we're just winning
marginally this battle but the war is in
front of us it is an economic War
there are things in the agreement I
don't like but isn't that what
compromise is about these four months
are a a chance for the left to show that
it can transform its ideas and its
Visions into practical everyday politics
and policies and that's what we'll be
trying to
do despite there being a sense of
cautious optimism among CA party members
that attitude is not being shared
throughout Greece
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right in front of parliament the
Communists have decided to Stage what is
one of the first
anti-government rallies now around
thousand people have gathered they are
saying essentially that CA is just a
continuation of the old Administration
basically continuing with austerity and
nothing much is going to change
change we don't think of them as left
and uh it's very misleading there's just
uh another government continuing the
work of the briish government uh
negotiating against people's wellbeing
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it remains to be seen whether CA can
honor their pre-election promises while
struggling to Stave off bankruptcy and
keeping the country in the Euro the next
few months will be critical for them as
they face pressure from disenchanted
voters increasingly inflexible lenders
and the understanding that the reality
of politics can be drastically different
from the ideal