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Greeks’ wrath over bailout terms is felt at polls

Top two parties give up ground to fringe groups

By Niki Kitsantonis and Rachel Donadio

 |  New York times  

  May 07, 2012

Greek voters appeared to radically redraw the political map on Sunday, bolstering the far left and neo-Nazi right in a wave of protest against the dominant political parties they blame for the country’s economic collapse. The parliamentary elections were the first time that Greece’s foreign loan agreement had been put to a democratic test, and the outcome was a rejection of the terms of the bailout and a fragmentation of the vote so severe that the front-runner will have great difficulty in forming a government

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