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Greek Solution Ελληνική Λύση Ellinikí Lýsi | |
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| President | Kyriakos Velopoulos |
| Vice President | Vasilis Viliardos |
| Press Secretary | Evaggelos Fanidis |
| Founder | Kyriakos Velopoulos |
| Founded | 28 June 2016 |
| Headquarters | Ippokratous 10-12, Athens |
| Youth wing | Greek Solution Youth |
| Ideology |
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| Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
| Religion | Greek Orthodox Church |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists[1] |
| Colours | Light blue |
| Parliament | 12 / 300 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 21 |
| Website | |
| elliniki-lisi | |
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The Greek Solution (Greek: Ελληνική Λύση, romanized: Ellinikí Lýsi) a political party in Greece founded by former MP Kyriakos Velopoulos. The party is right-wing[6][2][3] to far-right[13] and has been described as ideologically ultranationalist,[14][15][16][17][18][19] national conservative,[20][21][22] and right-wing populist.[23][24] The party garnered 3.7% of the vote in the 2019 Greek legislative election, winning 10 out of the 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament and 4.18% of the vote in the 2019 European Parliament election in Greece, winning one seat in the European Parliament.[25]
- ^ "ECR Group welcome new members". ECR Group.
- ^ a b Michalopoulos, Sarantis (26 May 2019). "Tsipras calls snap elections after major electoral defeat". euractiv.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
Newly established right-wing Greek Solution
- ^ a b "After defeat, Greek PM calls for snap elections". Kathimerini. 27 May 2019.
pro-Russian right-wing party Greek Solution with 4.04 percent.
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- "Στο 6,2% η διαφορά ΝΔ από ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, κοντά στην Βουλή ΛΑΕ και Βελόπουλος". skai.gr (in Greek). Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
κόμμα της συντηρητικής δεξιάς, την Ελληνική Λύση (translation: party of the conservative right, the Greek Solution)
- "The percentages of the parties compared with previous euro-elections: the winners and losers". Έθνος (in Greek). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
right-wing newcomer Elliniki Lysis
- Petrakis, Maria (7 July 2019). "Conservatives seize power from Tsipras in Greek election". POLITICO. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
A new party, the right-wing Hellenic Solution, is also set to squeak past the 3 percent mark, with 3.7 percent, to win 10 seats.
- "Στο 6,2% η διαφορά ΝΔ από ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, κοντά στην Βουλή ΛΑΕ και Βελόπουλος". skai.gr (in Greek). Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ Psaropoulos, John (1 November 2019). "Human rights community decries new Greek asylum law". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ [2][3][4][5]
- ^ "The Communist Party of Greece took 5.3%, far-right party Greek Solution 3.7% and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis's MeRA25, the Greek wing of his pan-European movement DiEM25, 3.4%. Golden Dawn, another far-right party, won 2.9%, just missing the 3% threshold to enter parliament". Bloomberg. 8 July 2019.
- ^ "But its weakening became apparent in May's European Parliament polls, when it received 4.87 percent of the vote during an election that saw Greek Solution, a newly formed party on the far right, gain 4.18 percent". Aljazeera. 8 July 2019.
- ^ "Small Euroskeptic, far-right Greek Solution party may squeeze into Euro Parliament". ekathimerini.com. 6 May 2019.
- ^ "A new party on the far right, Greek Solution, which is less extreme and apparently less menacing, may have siphoned away support". Time. 8 July 2019. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019.
- ^ "Dutch and Greek far-right parties join ECR Group". European Interest. 6 June 2019.
- ^ "Greek conservatives return to power with decisive election win". France 24. 7 July 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ [7][8][9][10][11][12]
- ^ "Greek elections: landslide victory for centre-right New Democracy party". The Guardian. 7 July 2019.
Smaller parties, such as the ultra-nationalist Greek Solution and leftist MeRA25, headed by Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister, were targeting younger Greeks.
- ^ "Dutch minister 'Bloks' Bulgaria's Schengen accession". EURACTIV. 6 June 2019.
The ultranationalist pro-Russian Greek Solution (Elliniki Lysi), a newcomer to Greek politics, has joined the conservative ECR group.
- ^ "The Greek election's winners and losers". Macro Polis. 7 September 2019.
A new addition to Parliament this time around is ultra-nationalist Greek Solution (Ellinki Lysi), which ran for the first time at the national level and gained almost 210,000 votes.
- ^ "Poll: ND lead over ruling SYRIZA still at 8.5 points". ekathimerini. 13 June 2019.
Meanwhile, ultranationalist party Greek Solution was on the cusp of securing parliamentary representation.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Greece". Parties and Elections in Europe.
- ^ "Opinion poll: Median ND lead over SYRIZA at 8.5% points". New Greek TV. 14 June 2019.
- ^ "High single-digit difference between ND, SYRIZA in new poll on Thurs". Naftemporiki. 16 May 2019.
- ^ Zulianello, Mattia (2019). "Varieties of Populist Parties and Party Systems in Europe: From State-of-the-Art to the Application of a Novel Classification Scheme to 66 Parties in 33 Countries" (PDF). Government and Opposition: 4.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Greece". Parties and Elections in Europe.
- ^ "Nationale Ergebnisse Griechenland| Wahlergebnisse 2019 | 2019 Ergebnisse der Europawahl 2019 | Europäisches Parlament". europawahlergebnis.eu/ (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2019.
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