Greek Solution

Greek Solution
Ελληνική Λύση
Ellinikí Lýsi
PresidentKyriakos Velopoulos
Vice PresidentDimitra Kritikou
Press SecretaryGiannis Skalkos
FounderKyriakos Velopoulos
Founded28 June 2016
HeadquartersIppokratous 10-12, Athens
Youth wingGreek Solution Youth
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
ReligionGreek Orthodox Church
European Parliament groupEuropean Conservatives and Reformists[1]
Colours  Light blue
Parliament
11 / 300
European Parliament
2 / 21
Website
elliniki-lisi.gr

The Greek Solution (Greek: Ελληνική Λύση, romanizedEllinikí Lýsi) is a political party in Greece founded by 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 first entered the European Parliament when it got 4.18% of the vote in the 2019 European Parliament election in Greece, winning one seat in the European Parliament,[25] and the Hellenic Parliament when it garnered 3.7% of the vote in the 2019 Greek legislative election

  1. ^ "ECR Group welcome new members". ECR Group.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^
  5. ^ Psaropoulos, John (1 November 2019). "Human rights community decries new Greek asylum law". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  6. ^ [2][3][4][5]
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "Small Euroskeptic, far-right Greek Solution party may squeeze into Euro Parliament". ekathimerini.com. 6 May 2019.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ "Dutch and Greek far-right parties join ECR Group". European Interest. 6 June 2019.
  12. ^ "Greek conservatives return to power with decisive election win". France 24. 7 July 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  13. ^ [7][8][9][10][11][12]
  14. ^ "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.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ "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.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference PoliticoUnorthodox was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. ^ Harris Mylonas, After a decade of crisis, Greek politics are turning normal and more technocratic, Washington Post (14 July 2019).
  20. ^ "Greece". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  21. ^ "Opinion poll: Median ND lead over SYRIZA at 8.5% points". New Greek TV. 14 June 2019.
  22. ^ "High single-digit difference between ND, SYRIZA in new poll on Thurs". Naftemporiki. 16 May 2019.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Greece". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  25. ^ "Nationale Ergebnisse Griechenland| Wahlergebnisse 2019 | 2019 Ergebnisse der Europawahl 2019 | Europäisches Parlament". europawahlergebnis.eu/ (in German). Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2019. ΕΛ/EL - Ελληνική Λύση / Greek Solution 4.18

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by razib.in