During the Parliamentary Sessions many parties were created out of internal strife and leadership ambitions or invoked a political vacuum. In any case, they had one thing in common: the limit of their active life reached about ten years.
By Antonis Anzoletou
In the last Pulse measurement on behalf of SKAI, the parties that do not manage to pass 3% and remain outside the Parliament correspond about 6.5% of respondents. The small formations that have been created from time to time were in several cases regulators of the elections, while in some others they played a decisive role in the governments that were formed. It is recalled that the more votes of the combinations below 3%, the lower the percentage of independence. During the Parliamentary Sessions many parties were created out of internal strife and leadership ambitions or invoked a political vacuum. In the majority of them, the personal small parties, which were formed from the big ones and quickly “disappeared”, were charged with the recycling of “old materials” which their voters quickly understood. In any case, they had one thing in common: the limit of their active life reached about ten years. Some were stillborn and did not even manage to enter the Parliament. Evangelos Averof had described the phenomenon of disintegration in the most characteristic way: “Whoever leaves the fold is eaten by the wolf.”
Historically, the attempts to mediate the “blue faction” were the most. The first split of the N.D. it was made in 1985 with Kostis Stefanopoulos founding “DIANA”. It was dissolved in 1994. It was followed by “POLAN” of Antonis Samaras (1993-2004) which entered the Parliament only the year it was founded. “LAOS” (2000-2015) was founded by Giorgos Karatzaferis and managed to put his party in the Parliament in 2007 and 2009. In 2001 Dimitris Avramopoulos founded “KEP” which did not last long and suspended its operation in 2002. The “Action” of Stefanos Manos arose in 2009 participating in various collaborations, without any result. In November 2010 Dora Bakoyannis created the “Democratic Alliance”. The rate of 2.55% in 2012 did not give her the ticket for Parliament. In 2012, through social media, the “ANEL” which co-governed with SYRIZA in his two government terms.
From the left of the geographic map in 2010 Fotis Kouvelis and other executives of the renewing Left who left SYRIZA created “DIMAR”. He managed to enter the Parliament twice. In May and June 2012. He participated in the government of Antonis Samaras from 2012 to 2013. Panagiotis Lafazanis in August 2015, together with 24 more MPs, he left Koumoundourou, founding “LAE”. Despite the denunciation against the memorandum, with a percentage of 2.87% it failed to enter the Parliament.
And in the area of the Center, the “sequestrations” did not last long. His “Hellenic Socialist Party”. Gerasimos Arsenis was founded in 1987 and dissolved in 1989. The party of Antonis Tritsis was also short-lived, while “DIKKI” of Dimitris Tsovolas entered the Parliament as an independent once in 1996. The political course he desired was not erased even by “KIDISO” of George Papandreou who did not exceed 3% in May 2015. “Potami” was founded in 2014 by Stavros Theodorakis and suspended its operation in 2019 after the bad result of the European elections. He entered the Parliament in both contests that took place in 2015. The Union of Centers of Vasilis Leventis was founded in 1992 and managed to enter Parliament only in September 2015 with a percentage of 3.43%.
Pollsters point out that there is an asterisk in relation to the measurement of very small parties. These are spontaneous responses of citizens that cannot be caught by statistical error. In many cases, after all, respondents do not specify which “other party” they choose. Today the situation is as follows: the “Greek” Solution seems to have no problem in the next election to enter the Parliament for a second time, as it is consistently measured above 4%. “MePA25” appears to have a marginal rate of 3%. To the left of SYRIZA is Zoi Konstantopoulou’s “Pleusi Eleftherias” (which was the first party from the left out of Parliament in 2019) and “ANTARSYA”. “Popular Unity” completed its nationwide conference with Dimitris Stratoulis and Mariana Tsichli being elected secretaries. The new party of Panagiotis Lafazani is called “DIKEA” (Democratic Movement of National Liberation). In the far-right bloc, the “Greeks” are represented at around 2% after the failure of “Golden Dawn” to enter the Parliament in 2019.
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