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Despite showering voters with old-fashioned, last-minute, clientelistic handouts, and having run a deeply divisive and aggressive campaign Syriza was resoundingly defeated at the polls, with Nea Demokratia registering the largest lead of any political party at any EU parliamentary election in Greece’s history. Voters demanded political change. Greece is on track to become the EU’s first post-populism country.