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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Greece, the polls closed. First exit polls, “No.” between 54.5 to 49.5% – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on July 5, 2015 at 15:11.
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They have closed the polls for a referendum in Greece on the conditions of the second aid plan, become now a referendum on the euro and on confidence in the government of Alexei Tsipras. The turnout in the referendum today was about 65% of those eligible to vote, according to reports from the Ministry of Interior greek. Consultation is therefore valid, having passed the quorum of 40 percent.

Ft Poll
According to local television stations, according to surveys conducted before polling closed , the “no” would be ahead on the “yes” but with a small margin: the “no” would stand in a range between 54.5% and 49.5; the “yes”, however, is between 45.5% and 50.5 percent. Also according to the Greek broadcaster Mega TV, the “no” would win with 51.5% of the vote, compared to 48.5% of “yes”. Soon after the release of the estimates on the vote, a cry of joy at the headquarters of Syriza has welcomed the first surveys on voting indications.
Meanwhile, the Financial Times, which had access to a confidential survey conducted in the last hours and not made public, made it known that would indicate the opposite of “no” between 51% and 53% of the vote.

The election day
The flow of voters to vote in the referendum was supported from the early hours of the morning, when in front of some school of Athens had even created small gatherings of people waiting to enter. Only in the early afternoon in polling stations in the capital queues decreased. Many preferred to go early to vote and then on to the nearby beaches and enjoy the sea this hot (30 ° C) and sunny day in Athens.

The eligible voters were about 9.8 million – of which 108,371 voted for the first time – and almost 19 thousand seats. Polling stations closed at seven o’clock tonight (six in Italy), but the first reliable projections on the outcome of the vote are expected for the eight (provided there is a difference of at least 4% between the two possible answers, and that You have been scrutinized at least 10% of the data). According to polls of recent days, however, to decide the result will be a handful of votes, about 40 thousand, although many were undecided until the last hour. Meanwhile, the main controversy is the cost of this referendum: € 40 million, certainly a significant figure for a country already heavily in debt and at risk of default.

Leaders to vote
“From tomorrow we open the way for all the peoples of Europe. Today democracy beats fear, “said Alexis Tsipras leaving the polling station, where he joked with the tellers because he could not bend the card. “Today is a day of celebration, because democracy is a party,” said Alexis Tsipras after voting, “because you can not ignore the decision of a government, but not the decision of a people.”

Even Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis voted in Faliro, on the Athenian Riviera, also welcomed by a large crowd. “It’s a celebration of democracy – said – The massive failures of the Euro led to an ultimatum to which people could not answer. Today it can give its response. ” Varoufakis, who arrived at the polling station in compgania’s father, said that “the single currency and democracy are compatible,” and added that “what today is a sacred moment for Europe.” During the late evening and night, when you shape the outcome of the referendum, the Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis held an emergency meeting with the Bank of Greece and the major commercial banks in the country. This was reported by the chief editor Robert Peston economic BBC on Twitter.

question
The question on which voters were asked to say yes (Nai) or No (Ochi) was as follows: “It must be accepted to the draft agreement presented by the European Commission, ECB and IMF in the Eurogroup of 25 June 2015, consists of two parts that make up their proposal? The first document is entitled “Reforms for the completion of the program and beyond” and the second “Preliminary analysis for debt sustainability.”