Unlikely Greek election candidate touts jobs and miracle cures

Part-time TV presenter, miracle cure salesman and budding politician Kyriakos Velopoulos wants to build a wall to keep migrants out of Greece. Lace it with mines, he says. He would also call a referendum on the death penalty for drug dealers and pedophiles.

With the country holding a general election on July 7, Velopoulos attracts a small level of support but is hoping for a repeat of the success of a May 24 election, where he won a ticket to the European Parliament, fronting a party called "Elliniki Lysi" (Greek Solution).

The victory was unexpected, he says, sitting in the television studio where he does most of his broadcasts from. Here he rages about all and sundry, and with equal fervor plugs herbal supplements and creams promising to cure everything from rheumatoid arthritis to clinical depression, Alzheimer's and baldness.

"I want to be honest, I didn't...