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The Greek neo-Nazi seats

John Kiriakou's tally of the June 2023 Greek parliamentary election, which he treats as the most disturbing case of a Europe-wide trend: eight parties won seats, six of them right-wing, four of them right-wing extremist, and two of them neo-Nazi parties taking thirteen seats between them.

The Greek neo-Nazi seats are the result John Kiriakou singled out from the June 2023 Greek parliamentary election as the sharpest instance of a continent-wide rightward shift.

The count

Kiriakou raised Greece as a correction to the coverage. Much had been made in the press that week about the ascendance of the far right in France and Italy, he said — noting that Italy had a fascist prime minister and that the most popular party in France, if polls were to be believed, was the extreme right party.[1]

But “Greece had its elections two weeks ago, and eight parties won seats in parliament. Six of them are right-wing parties, and four of them are right-wing extremist parties. There are two neo-Nazi parties that won a total of 13 seats in the Greek parliament.”[1]

The wider trend

He read the Greek figures as part of a pattern rather than an outlier: “This is a very disturbing trend that we’re seeing all over Western Europe. And we already are seeing entrenched right-wing parties in Poland, in Hungary, in the UK, let’s be honest.”[2]

On the British case he named a specific policy as evidence — see the Rwanda deportations.[2]

Earlier in the same exchange, Kiriakou had summarised the electoral choice now on offer across much of Western Europe as “a right-wing government, a far right-wing government, or an extreme right-wing government. Those are their choices.”[3]

See also

References

  1. AM WakeUp, 2023-07-0658:51 on YouTube · Transcript
  2. AM WakeUp, 2023-07-0659:25 on YouTube · Transcript
  3. AM WakeUp, 2023-07-0657:03 on YouTube · Transcript

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