The far-right: A fragmented, not emerging force

What has been extensively discussed since the election? The resounding victory of New Democracy, which was also a personal triumph for conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis; the defeat of SYRIZA; the relatively modest performance of PASOK (which received only a fraction of the votes that SYRIZA lost); the resurgence of Zoe Konstantopoulou through her party, Course of Freedom. However, a significant point of discussion has also been the entrance of three far-right parties into the Greek Parliament.

We used to believe that the country had moved past phenomena like the outlawed neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn, which was ruled a criminal organization in 2020. However, the situation is not as straightforward as it seems, as there is a significant amount of similar ideological "material" dispersed within Greek society. Now, alongside Kyiakos Velopoulos' Greek Solution party, we also...

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