Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said his party’s victory marked an end to the “viscious cycle of austerity”backstage BY NIKOS CHRISTOFAKIS

Here’s summary of a momentous election result for the future ofGreece and Europe:

• The anti-austerity far left party Syriza has won the Greek election by a decisive margin, but just short of an outright majority. With more than three-quarters of the results in Syriza is projected to win 149 seats in the 300 seat parliament.
• Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said his party’s victory marked an end to the “viscious cycle of austerity”. Referring to the neoliberal conditions set by the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, he said: “ The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.”
• Backstage photos