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Greek parliament votes to ban extreme-right party from elections

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis delivers a speech during a debate in the Parliament in Athens, Greece, 26 August 2020. The agreements with Italy and Egypt on the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) have been submitted for ratification in the plenary session of the Parliament. The draft laws of the Foreign Ministry submitted for ratification on the agreement with Italy for the delimitation of their respective maritime zones and with Egypt for the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone between the two states. In his speech Mitsotakis announced that 'Greece extends its territorial waters to the west from 6 to 12 miles'. EPA-EFE/KOSTAS TSIRONIS

Greek MPs voted to ban the extreme-right Greeks-National Party from running in elections, aiming to block its members linked to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn criminal organization from entering parliament.

The Greeks-National Party was founded two years ago by former lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris, who is currently serving a more than 13-year prison sentence over his leading role in Golden Dawn, which was declared a criminal organization in 2020 for charges including murder, racist violence and money laundering. Kasidiaris still managed to gain significant support from messages posted on YouTube while in jail.

The Greek government had originally passed legislation in February banning the Greeks-National Party on the grounds that its leader was convicted of serious offenses and that the party wouldn’t “serve the free functioning of a democratic constitution.” But the party last week appointed a new leader, a retired prosecutor, in an effort to bypass the ban.

The legislation passed by parliament expanded the scope of the ban and was backed by the MPs from the ruling center-right New Democracy party as well as the opposition Socialist Pasok party. The legislation also requests that the Supreme Court hold a full plenary session to consider the ban, rather than a specific section, for example, one that oversees elections.

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