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May 8, 2012

Greek Neo-Nazi Party Wins Support on Anti-Immigrant Platform 
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Human rights and immigrant groups are expressing alarm over the success
of the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Sunday's Greek election. The party
received 7 percent of the vote and won as many as 21 seats in the Greek
Parliament. In the previous election, Golden Dawn received less than 0.3
percent of the vote. The party, whose flag resembles a swastika,
campaigned largely on an anti-immigrant platform. Thanasis Kourkoulas
works with the Greek organization, Expel Racism.

Thanasis Kourkoulas: "If they enter the parliament, and there is a short
period of a parliament with them inside, this means that we will have
more attacks to immigrants, but also more attacks to all the
pro-immigrant organizations and the left organizations and labor unions
in Greece."

 

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