Why can't we do something like this here?
Greece’s radical left could kill off austerity in the EU
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/...
Another war looms in Europe: waged not with guns and tanks, but with financial markets and EU diktats. Austerity-ravaged Greece may well be on the verge of a general election that could bring to power a government unequivocally opposed to austerity. Momentous stuff: that has not happened in the six years of cuts and falling living standards that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
But if the radical leftist party Syriza does indeed triumph in a possible snap poll in the new year, there will undoubtedly be a concerted attempt to choke the experiment at birth. That matters not just for Greece, but for all of us who want a different sort of society and a break from years of austerity.
Podemos: The Radical Party Turning Spanish Politics on Its Head
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/podemosradical-...
This time next year Spain will hold a general election, and if Podemos continue on their current trajectory, the charismatic but determinedly down-to-earth Iglesias could conceivably be the country’s new prime minister.