By Antonis Anzoletou

The space of the extreme right shows a particular mobility recently. The former vice-prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Anastasios Kanellopoulos, took over the reins of the party of the convicted Ilias Kasidiaris and on the “right of the right” debates flared up.

The partial revival of Golden Dawn, which won the ticket for the Parliament in May 2012, is according to many a fact. The seal for the reorganization of its forces will be put in if the Areios Pagos finally gives the green light for its participation in the elections and if, of course, it passes the threshold of the Parliament.

In the opinion polls, the “National Party – Greeks” reaches 3.5%. It is made up of a large volume of voters who apparently in the majority are nostalgic for the scenes of thuggery and violence that flooded not only neighborhoods of Athens, but even the Parliament.

Through the research, it appears that it is mainly a male audience from 30-44 years old, former Golden Dawn voters who did not have a political home after the failure of the party to enter the Parliament in July 2019.

What will happen if the descent of the formation is prohibited in the elections of May 21? There are some relatively “relative” forces that will claim that particular audience. A percentage is estimated to go to the pie of undecided anti-systemic voters.

With the exception of 2012, only shortly after the transition, in 1977, a party from the most extreme right wing had managed to register more than 6%. It was the “National Parataxis” led by Stefanos Stephanopoulos that won the vote of approximately 350,000 Greek citizens. Ideologically the party expressed conservative royalists using anti-communist slogans.

Not even the EPEN, which was allegedly formed with the blessings of the imprisoned Georgios Papadopoulos, managed to stand out. In the 1985 elections, it recorded only 0.6%. The party’s only success was the 2.3% it scored in the 1984 European elections. After the withdrawal of the support of its until then leader, Georgiou Papadopoulos, and the rest of the imprisoned Aprilians to the party, BUT it was renamed. In the national elections of 1990, under the leadership of Chrysanthos Dimitriadis, it entered the polls under the name “National Party”.

What history has shown since 1974 is that the scope for expanding the space of the extreme right is concrete. A wave of rage and anger managed to swell the Golden Dawn 11 years ago, but this case too was a “flash” without continuation. The truth is that the “record” of 9.4% that he recorded in the 2014 European elections had quite alarmed the democratic world.

What is happening is that other parties, which are not possessed by Nazi-fascist ideologies, are gaining ground and attracting part of the right-wing anti-systemic vote. Previously, LAOS, led by Giorgos Karatzaferis, was active in the area. Today the Greek Solution of Kyriakos Velopoulos is a force that, especially in northern Greece, has a significant current and it is of course considered to be comfortable re-entering the Parliament.