{"id":40020,"date":"2019-07-07T23:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40020"},"modified":"2019-07-07T23:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T23:23:47","slug":"is-it-the-end-of-populism-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40020","title":{"rendered":"Is it the end of populism in Greece?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"90\">\n<p>Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras led his left-wing Syriza party to power in 2015, with promises that offered much hope to the Greek people.<\/p>\n<p>But fixing a country facing it&#8217;s gravest economic crisis in recent history proved to be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than end the austerity measures that he&#8217;d campaigned against, Tsipras imposed more taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Giving in to creditors&#8217; demands, Greece exited its final bailout last year and the economy is expected to expand.<\/p>\n<p>But its unemployment rate is the highest in Europe, and people are struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>This has upset many voters, who say they&#8217;re now in favour of the conservative New Democracy (ND) party.<\/p>\n<p>Early results from Sunday&#8217;s snap election showed the ND party was tipped to win.<\/p>\n<p>So, will a new leadership emerge in Greece?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Imran Khan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dimitris Rapidis, political adviser to the Syriza Party<\/p>\n<p>Vicky Pryce, chief economic adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research<\/p>\n<p>Yannis Koutsomitis, European Affairs Analyst<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras led his left-wing Syriza party to power in 2015, with promises that offered much hope to the Greek people. But fixing a country facing it&#8217;s gravest economic crisis in recent history proved to be a challenge. Rather than end the austerity measures that he&#8217;d campaigned against, Tsipras imposed more taxes. Giving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}