From Podemos to Syriza: Is change in the air in southern Europe?
Crucially, the return of a word that had been absence for a long time – hope – has dominated national discourses and national conversations. “Hope is coming,” Pablo Iglesias had declared at the final campaign rally of Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party. In Greece, it is not just poor people that were looking for hope but also the aspirational middle class.