US EditionGreek court strips three right-wing lawmakers of parliamentary seats
- A Greek court stripped three far-right Spartans party lawmakers of their parliamentary seats on Tuesday, June 2023.
- The court ruled these lawmakers had misled voters and acted as proxies for a jailed Golden Dawn leader convicted of criminal organization leadership.
- The Spartans party won 4.7% of the vote in 2023 and denied links to Golden Dawn, while two remaining Spartans lawmakers now serve as independents.
- This decision reduced parliament seats from 300 to 297, lowering the majority threshold from 151 to 149 votes, and was welcomed by Greece's conservative government.
- The ruling implies increased scrutiny of far-right parties in Greece and Europe amid concerns about their disregard for democratic rules and legitimacy.
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The Parliament is waiting to be notified of the electoral court's decision - "No issue will arise," Nikitas Kaklamanis claimed
It is the number of Members of their parliamentary group after large internal divisions and a sentence of a Greek court
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Lawmakers expelled from Greece's parliament over ties to jailed far-right politician
Three far-right lawmakers in Greece have been expelled from parliament due to ties with a jailed politician convicted of leading a criminal organization.
A historic judicial decision struck Greece's extreme right movement, after the members of the non-fascist party "Spartans" were deprived of three seats in parliament, reports The Guardian, according to News.ro
The Supreme Court of Greece has ruled that three of the five deputies of the far-right Spartan party – including its leader, Vasilis Stigas – lose their seats after being convicted of electoral fraud and misled voters. According to the ruling, the leader of the party was Ilias Kasidiris , a former deputy of the outlawed neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, who would have handled the threads of the electoral campaign from prison , where he has served a se…
Three MPs of the far-right party Spartates, including the leader Vasilis Stigas, will lose their parliamentary seats. This is reported by the newspaper Kathimerini following a decision of the Greek Special Supreme Court, which cancelled their election in 2023, and will now have to judge the validity of the parliamentary elections in Greece. The Court in question speaks of electoral fraud, because at the time of the elections the occult leader of…
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