By Ioanna Mandrou

A total of fifty political formations, parties, coalitions of parties and individual candidates submitted applications to participate in the upcoming elections, double the number of the previous election.

Among them the party “Greeks” founded by Ilias Kasidiariswho is a candidate for parliament in Athens A, but also the EAN party led by the honorary deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court Anastasios Kanellopoulos.

For the national-parliamentary elections of July 7, 2019, 24 parties and coalitions of parties had declared their participation in the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court.

Four parties and coalitions of parties had been cut from the A1 Political Department, because either they did not provide the necessary documents, or there was a question of the right to use the party’s title, or even for other formal reasons.

Which parties, coalitions of parties and individual candidates declared their participation in the elections.

Political parties

1) SYRIZA

2) KKE (m-m)

3) OKDE

4) MUTINY

5) GREEK SOLUTION – KYRIAKOS VELOPOULOS

6) COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE (KKE)

7) MOVEMENT 21

8) MOVEMENT OF THE POOR

9) PATRIOTIC UNION “EL.LA.S” – ELL. POPULAR CONSOLIDATION

10) VICTORY

11) PATRIOTIC UNION – EMFIETZOGLOU PROGRESS

12) GREEK VISION

13) DAY 25 – ALLIANCE FOR THE BREAK

14) NORTH LEGGA-KRAMA

15) OAKKE

16) M-L KKE

17) GREEK ASSEMBLY

18) UNION OF CENTERS

19) DARE

20) HOMETOWN – AFRODITI LATINOPOULOU

21) NEW REPUBLIC

22) EY – MOVEMENT

23) NEW STRUCTURE

24) FREE AGAIN

25) CHICKEN

26) POWER TO THE CITIZEN

27) DIMOSTHENIS VERGIS – GREEK ENVIRONMENTALS

28) SOCIAL

29) SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY

30) GREEN MOVEMENT

31) IF

32) PEOPLE’S EUROPEAN PARTY (L.EF.KO)

33) GREEKS

34) GREEK WHITE MOVEMENT OF CURRENT IDEOLOGY (ELKSI)

35) Greek National Party

36) GREEK CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS – CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF GREECE

37) PHILONOMI DEMEGERSIA

38) FREEDOM SAILING

Party coalitions

1) I UNITE FREEDOM ALLIANCE

2) NATIONAL CREATION

3) SOCIETY OF VALUES – LIBERAL ALLIANCE

4) ALLIANCE OF SUBSTITUTION

5) POLITICAL INITIATIVE

6) GREEN AND PURPLE

7) PASOK – KINAL

8) ECOLOGICAL GREENS – GREEN UNIT

9) UNITY-TRUTH EN.A

10) TOGETHER

Individual candidates

1) EMMANOUIL KALIGIANNIS

2) STEFANOS PROITSIS

It should be noted that there are several parties that use “Greeks” in the first word of their title or in between, such as Greek Christian Democrats, Greek White, etc.

The crucial decision

The crucial decision for the electoral fate of the Kasidiaris party, but also of the EAN party, will be taken on next Tuesday by the judges of the A1 Department of the Supreme Court, in application of the recent legislative regulations.

For the party of Ilias Kasidiaris, estimates are that it will not pass the legality check that will be made by the supreme court, as the convicted former member of the FSA himself participates in it, which is expressly prohibited by law.

But as far as the “EAN” party of Anastasios Kanellopoulos is concerned, which finally chose an autonomous descent, while he had initially declared that he would lead the Kasidiaris party, the assessments of his electoral fortune are contradictory.

If finally the honorary deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court files a file without any executive of the AXA, it is unlikely, as judicial sources report, that it can be cut by the Supreme Court.

However, opinions are also expressed that the Supreme Court may ultimately be led to a decision to ban the participation of this political formation as well, if there are evidences that in fact link the “EAN” with the political pursuits of the imprisoned Kasidiaris.

To this end, judicial sources stated that the Supreme Court will proceed in strict compliance with the current legislation and will check the substance of the relations between the political formations “EAN” and “Greeks”, as well as the relations between Kanellopoulos and Kasidiaris.