Social democrats win Greek regional elections amid mass abstention

by Robert Stevens from World Socialist Web Site.  

This means that nearly two in three Greek voters did not vote for a candidate in the second round.

This mass abstention is a particularly clear sign of growing discontent with “official” politics, as it is illegal not to vote in Greece. Such levels of abstention reveal a pronounced level of disgust with both PASOK and ND, who are equally reviled and viewed as proponents of austerity and social misery.

The Greeks know how to cope with the election circuses that their ruling class use to create political legitimacy for a capitalist party, whichever one they are allowed to vote for.