Greek Election

• Prize
• Photographer
  Gerasimos Koilakos, Greece
• Studio
  Gerasimos Koilakos
• Website
  http://www.gerasimoskoilakos.com

After five years of economic meltdown Greece’s critical 25th of
January election resulted in left-wing Syriza victory, under Alexis
Tsipras, ending decades of two party rule by conservative New
Democracy and centre-left PASOK. Extreme-right Golden Dawn
party came third, despite its leadership detained pending trial on
charges of belonging to a criminal organisation. Bringing to power
the first anti-austerity party in Europe, the Greek election result
represents the first rumblings in 2015 of potential political and
economic earthquakes on the European horizon.