The many claimants of victory

Legislative efforts to shield the state against the far-right failed and the seed of fascism was not pulled up by the roots. So what if one of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn's most prominent lieutenants was jailed? He's still pulling the strings from his cell. Accounting for all three parties from this part of the spectrum that made it into Parliament (Spartans, Greek Solution and Niki), the far-right garnered around 13% of the vote on Sunday.

The pockets of far-right ideology in Greek society are therefore not only strong, they are also apparently transforming and mutating; they are certainly multiplying. And because we have a habit of negating reality through sheer fantasy even though it always charges back, it would be advisable to start thinking about the consequences of this truth rather than boasting that the extreme right is gone or has changed.

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