Monday, 7 May 2012
The leader of an extreme-right, anti-immigrant party on course for shock success in Greece's general elections has lashed out at those he described as "traitors" responsible for the country's financial crisis and said his party was ushering in a "revolution".Source: Guardian
The far-right Golden Dawn party is set to win 7% of the parliamentary vote, according to early projections, as Greeks punished the traditionally dominant parties who backed harsh austerity measures tied to debt-relief agreements.
Parties must exceed a 3% threshold of the vote to be represented in Greece's parliament. In the last general election in 2009, Golden Dawn received only 0.29%. It has seen its support jump as a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment has spread in financially devastated Greece.
Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos said his party had delivered a blow against the country's corrupt leadership.
"They slandered us, slung mud at us and shut us out of all the news media – the TV channels of the corrupt elite – and we beat them," the 55-year-old leader said as the votes came in.
"The day of national revolution by the Greeks has begun against those who are selling us out and looting the sweat of the Greek people."
Golden Dawn campaigned hard against illegal immigration, and its supporters have been blamed for a recent spike in inner-city street attacks against mostly Asian immigrants.
The party's supporters, routinely seen intimidating immigrants in run-down parts of the capital, wear black shirts, and its emblems resemble Nazi insignia.
But Michaloliakos has rejected the neo-Nazi label widely used for his party, stressing that it is staunchly nationalist.
Referring to immigrants, Golden Dawn's campaign slogan in TV ads was: "Let's rid this country of the stench."
Javad Aslan, a spokesman for Greece's Pakistani immigrant community, urged other political parties to work together to isolate Golden Dawn.
"This is dangerous for everyone who is living in Greece," Aslan said. "This [result is] unbelievable for me. It is very serious, very dangerous.
"I can never believe a political party that comes with knives and bars against us, that hurts people and puts them in hospital."
Golden Dawn says Greece should reject its bailout commitments and write off its debt.
"No one should fear me if they are a good Greek citizen. If they are traitors – I don't know," Michaloliakos said.
Flanked by two muscly aides, he later told a news conference: "Those who betray this country – it's time for them to be afraid. We are coming."
He did not elaborate, but added: "We will fight to free Greece from the global loan sharks, for a Greece of dignity and independence, and for a Greece that is not a social jungle with all these millions of illegal immigrants that were brought here."
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1 comments:
Essentially PASOK and ND are the only parties who are pro-EU memorandum; it would take the combined opposition parties to form a viable coalition but I don't see that happening as Xrysi Avgi is pretty much diametrically opposed to the KKE, Syriza and Democratic Left.
Ideally, Xrysi Avgi will support the other parties in exchange for curbs on immigration and strengthening of Greece's borders but we'll see.
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