Golden Dawn party

A legal dispute involving the government's attempt to prevent a far-right political party from running in the general election scheduled for next month led to the resignation of a vice president of Greece's Supreme Court on Monday. 

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed to all democratic forces to agree and vote in favor of a fresh government measure to ban a far-right political party from participating in next month's general election.

A vice president at Greece's Supreme Court resigned Monday in a legal dispute over an attempt by the government to ban a far-right political party from participating in a general election next month.

A provision was tabled late Thursday night in Parliament to block the participation in national elections of the new party fronted by the jailed Ilias Kasidiaris, who was once a leading figure of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

Ruling New Democracy maintains a lead of 5.9 points over leftist opposition SYRIZA, according to a poll conducted by MRB and presented on Open TV Thursday.

The government will exhaust the possibilities provided by the Constitution to secure a broad political understanding so that criminal organizations are not represented in the Greek Parliament, according to government sources cited by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, referring to efforts to stop the Ellines party led by the imprisoned Ilias Kasidiaris, a former leading member of the outlawed n

Trials that drag on for years raise serious questions about the administration of justice in Greece, while the fines imposed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against our country almost exclusively stem from the glacial pace of the Greek justice system.

Police in Thessaloniki have remanded in custody 14 individuals in connection with a violent attack by groups of far right hoodlums on members of the Greek Communist Party Youth (KNE) who were distributing party pamphlets in Eleftherias Square.

By Nikos Hasapopoulos

Christos Pappas of the now defunct far-right Golden Dawn party was no run of the mill cadre of former party leader Nikos Michaloliakos.

He was the self-styled "theoretician" of the group. Even "his own" people referred to him as [top Nazi Hermann] Goering and his parliamentary presence was marked by his outrageous audacity.

Christos Pappas, who was second in charge of the far-right Golden Dawn party, was arrested late on July 1 in Zografos, a suburb of the Greek capital Athens. 

Pappas, who had been sentenced to 13 years in prison in October 2020 along with other senior members of the party for forming a criminal organization, had gone missing after the verdict.