Greeks reject EU-IMF plan, want coalition rule: polls

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Greek protesters take part in a demonstration against new austerity measures in Athens, on February 19, 2012.

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A majority of Greeks reject an economic recovery plan imposed in return for EU-IMF loans and would prefer a coalition government to emerge from upcoming elections, opinion polls showed on Saturday.

A poll by the MRB company showed that 26.2 percent of respondents intend to vote for a party opposed to the unpopular EU-IMF rescue in the May 6 ballot.

In response to another question, 66 percent said Greece should stay in the eurozone but adopt an alternative recovery plan, while 13.2 percent said the country should drop the euro altogether.

Greece in 2010 appealed to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund for loans to avert bankruptcy and was forced to put its economy in order.

In order to tackle runaway state deficits, it adopted tough austerity policies bringing layoffs, pay cuts and tax hikes.

There are now over a million unemployed according to official figures -- more than a fifth of the workforce -- and the country is sinking deeper into recession.

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BABYSITTING

April 14, 2012 by tieyetos (Canada ), 1 year 4 weeks ago

GREEKS SHOULD JOIN THE STAN BROTHERS AFGANISTAN KURTISTAN ZEIBEKINSTAN AND SO ON, SAME MENTALITY.AND STOP BLAMING THE XENOUS, GREEKS MADE THE MESS,GREEKS CLEAN IT UP,NO MORE BABYSITTING,..

But Mr Caps, they been there, done that...

April 15, 2012 by Freethinker (United States ), 1 year 4 weeks ago

as I recall, "Yunanistan" (resulting from a corruption of the word "Ionia", referring to the Ionian branch of Greek civilization located for millennia in the northwestern part of Asia Minor) is the name the Ottoman Turks used for Greece during the 400+ year occupation of the nation, and its that name, probably of Arabic origin, which is used by many Asian peoples of the middle east and beyond.

Of course, I'm mentioning this with a degree of sarcasm in the hopes it may remind you to hopefully not speak so harshly of this great nation and her people who've faced so much suffering in their profound history. To my knowledge no one is babysitting Greece and while its true there is much room for improvement among the Greeks, first and foremost and most important of all is to remember that no matter what, we should treat each other with mutual respect and be able to speak to one another calmly and simply, just as the song from Nikos Xilouris says, that we may retain our common sense and be able to call a spade a spade and a fig a fig.

Greeks have made it far too easy for their enemies to use their inherently fierce, independent nature against one another; so many times we've made it all too easy to allow ourselves to be led astray by being quick to squabble amongst ourselves and allow division and confusion to weaken us even to the point where we've warred with one another at times, where there should instead only be strength shown through unity and unshakable cohesion, NO MATTER WHAT...