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I have made 6 people take the test at my home, 4 are voting for parties they do not have much affinity to!

There is also an option for ‘neither agree nor disagree’ for every statement.

Choosing this response for all 30 questions results in a 55 per cent correlation with Green Party ideals, 63 per cent correlation with socialist EDEK and a surprising 67 per cent correlation with DIKO, suggesting they could be the apathetic voter’s best bet.

So the ones who don't have an opinion on anything should vote for DIKO, not really a surprise!

That is not the case. Voting "Χωρίς Άποψη" (no opinion) on everything gives a result of 0% for all parties.

The center answer is not "no opinion" but "neither agree, nor disagree" and this answer is purposely in the center indicating that a person does have an opinion on the issue (otherwise he would vote the "no opinion" option) but recognizes that there both pros and cons to a certain point and a decision can be taken only when the specifics of such point are examined.

It was the "oute symphono/oute diaphono" that meant you should vote for DIKO.

So you would have no opinion on anything, just like DIKO!

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Nicolas Papadopoulos was very notable by his absence from the group surrounding Marios Garoyian during his "Victory" speech.

The next few days should be interesting!

[supporttheunderdog]

Now we know who the voters voted for

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/05 ... elections/

Opposition DISY won Sunday’s parliamentary elections with ruling AKEL trailing behind, as both parties made gains compared with five years ago. DISY garnered 34.27 per cent of the vote – a 3.75 per cent rise – with AKEL recording a 1.36 per cent gain that put it in second place with 32.67 per cent. Government coalition partner DIKO saw its support drop by 2.22 per cent to 15.77 per cent of the vote while EVROKO gathered 3.88 per cent of the vote – recording a 1.90 drop.
Socialists EDEK and the Green party saw marginal losses.
Pancyprian results at 100% of registered voters in parliamentary elections are as follows:
A total of 418,181 ballots were counted, 404,518 were valid, 8,693 invalid, 4,970 blank and there were 113,282 abstentions.

Votes went to:
DISY 138,614 34.27%
AKEL 132,163 32.67%
DIKO 63,783 15.77%
EDEK 36,119 8.93%
EVROKO 15,712 3.88%
GREENS 8,954 2.21%
ELAM 4,350 1.08%
LASOK 2,668 0.66%
ZYGOS 858 0.21%
KY.PRO.S 709 0.18%
KYRIAKOU K. 235 0.06%
EFSTRATIOU A. 213 0.05%
CONSTANTINOU N. 45 0.01%
STAVROU P. 39 0.01%
PIERIDIS A. 36 0.01%
STAVROU L. 20 0.01%

The elections won’t mean a change in government under the island’s presidential system.
Chief Returning Officer Lazaros Savvides said that the final turnout around 80 per cent, or 9 per cent lower than the previous elections.

[Piratis]

I have made 6 people take the test at my home, 4 are voting for parties they do not have much affinity to!

There is also an option for ‘neither agree nor disagree’ for every statement.

Choosing this response for all 30 questions results in a 55 per cent correlation with Green Party ideals, 63 per cent correlation with socialist EDEK and a surprising 67 per cent correlation with DIKO, suggesting they could be the apathetic voter’s best bet.

So the ones who don't have an opinion on anything should vote for DIKO, not really a surprise!

That is not the case. Voting "Χωρίς Άποψη" (no opinion) on everything gives a result of 0% for all parties.

The center answer is not "no opinion" but "neither agree, nor disagree" and this answer is purposely in the center indicating that a person does have an opinion on the issue (otherwise he would vote the "no opinion" option) but recognizes that there both pros and cons to a certain point and a decision can be taken only when the specifics of such point are examined.

It was the "oute symphono/oute diaphono" that meant you should vote for DIKO.

So you would have no opinion on anything, just like DIKO!

Again, "no opinion" was the last answer, and if you have no opinion on anything then you shouldn't vote for any party.

The "neither agree / nor disagree" answer can be a valid answer to several questions. Take for example the question whether BBF is acceptable. Since the term BBF is vague, agreeing or disagreeing with such question should depend on the exact contents of the proposal.

Furthermore, if you see the answers that each party (supposedly) gives to the questionnaire, you will see that all parties answer "neither agree / nor disagree" on several questions. However the extremists more often answer "strongly agree" or "strongly disagree" to some questions, which is why they score lower when somebody answers "neither agree / nor disagree" on everything.

Do you really believe that DISY has a more clear position than DIKO? This is obviously not true, especially when it comes to the Cyprus Problem. DISY changes its position and camouflages itself constantly in order to take as much votes as possible.

[Piratis]

Socialists EDEK and the Green party saw marginal losses.

The Green party had some gains, not marginal losses. EDEK has 0.03% losses, while the Green Party 0.25% gains.

[Raymanoff]

did anything change? same margins... as long as mammothreuti psifizoun oti psifizi i mamma kai o tziris tous, den tha alaksi tpt, family politics.

[Paphitis]

did anything change? same margins... as long as mammothreuti psifizoun oti psifizi i mamma kai o tziris tous, den tha alaksi tpt, family politics.

Pretty pathetic isn't it?

Probably why we have silly politicians as well, fit for a zoo!