Out in the open air, in the centre of Athens is a soup kitchen. Here the atmosphere is not one of trust in the future, whatever the result of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. After so many years of deprivation and hardship, the only objective is to obtain a meal.
Constantinos Polychronopoulos lost his job four years ago. Since then he has created “The Other Human”, a charity which feeds the needy. In 2011 they provided 50-60 meals a day; four years later the figure is 450.
“No matter who gets elected, I will continue to be unemployed, I will continue to not have a single euro in my pocket. Therefore I don’t care if we use the euro or the drachma. I don’t have such dilemmas and there are some three to four million Greeks, half of Greece, like me,” Polychronopoulos said.
The possibility of the radical left SYRIZA party emerging victorious has raised the question of a potential a Greek exit from the euro.
This mistrust of the future is shared by small business owners, in partic
