Extremist Hellenes party dubbed successor of now defunct Golden Dawn, whose neo-Nazi leaders are serving jail terms
A decision to disqualify a far-right group from participating in Greece’s forthcoming general election was taken in the interests of safeguarding democracy, the country’s supreme court has said.
“The aim of the accused, Ilias Kasidiaris, was to reappear once again on the political scene,” the justices wrote in a 400-page explication of the ruling, extracts of which were published on Thursday. “He founded the new party as the successor and continuation of … the criminal organisation Golden Dawn with himself [appointed] as the real leader.”
Explaining the court’s decision, the justices singled out Kasidiaris’s predilection for violence and embrace of “racist and intolerant ideas”, arguing his policies not only “do not respect democracy” but were aimed, ultimately, at dismantling the democratic state and institutions of rule of law. In statements posted on Twitter he vowed to take the case to the European court of human rights, saying the judgment had denied hundreds of thousands of Greek citizens their democratic right.
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