Samaras: A new era begins tomorrow Tsipras: We make way for hope

Alexis Tsipras voted surrounded by Greek and foreign journalists, commenting on the strong interest of domestic and foreign media. "Judging by your interest, others are at more risk today."

"We defeated fear. Today we pave the way to hope, to a better tomorrow, with our people united, dignified and proud. For a Greece of social justice and decency, an equal member of a changing Europe, of the peoples and of solidarity. We are optimistic. The future belongs to the bearers of hope. We will win," said the SYRIZA president after voting in Kipseli.

ND president Antonis Samaras went to the second polling station in Pylos shortly before 10 am, accompanied by his wife Georgia. "Today the Greek people will speak. Tomorrow will be a new era for Greece."

"Today the Greek people can and should ensure the cohesion of society and the unity of the nation," PASOK president Evangelos Venizelos said after voting in Salonica. "Tomorrow we can and must have a government. No other scenario except a government of shared national responsibility will offer the solution that this country needs," he added.

"Fear makes you win the battle and hope makes you win the war. We Greeks are the hope for Europe. We want to show that principles and values are stronger than the bankers. Our national football team proved that one wins the battle with confidence and unity, not with fear and defeatism," Panos Kammenos said from Alexandroupoli.

"Attica has been burning since yesterday. Let us not throw into the polls today the embers of a political system. We set up a new Greece with perspective and hope. A Greece that will not only rejoice in the victories of the national football team. The Ecologists Greens have a role," said the head of the party Ioanna Kontouli from Zografou.

LAOS president G. Karatzaferis voted in Paleo Faliro. "There are Greeks who beat the odds with faith and hope, and now I think they will follow the example of the National football team. The Greeks are called upon to do the same, vote with a patriotic conscience."