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European elections: Greek Supreme Court bans far-right party from running
Greece's top court banned on Thursday the small far-right Spartans party from running in European elections on June 9, pending an investigation into alleged electoral fraud.
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The court approved a list of thirty political groups authorized to participate in the elections, which did not include the Spartans party, according to a judicial source, cited by the French agency AFP.
Shortly before the announcement of the ban on the Spartans' participation in the European elections, a former deputy of the partisan force was arrested for having thrown a deputy from another nationalist party to the ground in parliament, according to the Greek press.
In early April, 11 Spartans deputies were accused of electoral fraud in the June 2023 general election, on suspicion that the party was allegedly led by Ilias Kasidiaris, the former spokesman for the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, who is in prison.
Kasidiaris and a Greek lawyer were also prosecuted for their alleged involvement in the case.
The case is being conducted by the Supreme Court prosecutor Georgia Adeilini.
Adeilini has been investigating the case since last September, after Vasilis Stigkas, leader of the Spartans, accused some of his deputies of being "guided" by people "outside parliament".
Vasilis Stigkas was referring to Kasidiaris, an admirer of the Third Reich who supported the far-right party in last June's elections.
The Spartans party, which participated in elections for the first time in June 2023, obtained more than 240 thousand votes and 12 seats in the Hellenic parliament.
At the time, Vassilis Stigkas publicly thanked Ilias Kasidiaris for having "nurtured" the party's rise, but a few months later he backed down and withdrew his statements.
Golden Dawn practically disappeared from the Greek political scene after its leaders, executives and deputies, including Kasidiaris, were sentenced in 2020 to several years in prison for belonging to a "criminal organization".
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