A total of 32 parties and party coalitions will run in the June 25 national elections, following the Greek Supreme Court’s decision released on Thursday.
Of the initial 44 parties, coalitions, and independent candidates that had submitted applications to Section A1 of the Court, 12 parties were rejected, including the coalition of independent candidates ‘Hellenes for Country & Freedom’, of which one candidate was jailed neo-Nazi Ilias Kasidiaris.
The parties that made the list and will run in elections include the last parliamentary session’s participants, after the first round of national elections on May 21: the former ruling New Democracy (Kyriakos Mitsotakis), former main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance (Alexis Tsipras), PASOK- KINAL (Nikos Androulakis), Communist Party of Greece (Dimitris Koutsoubas) and Greek Solution (Kyriakos Velopoulos).
SOURCE; ANA-MPA
