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of the vote in the October 2002 municipal and prefecture elections
The nationalist Hellenic Front, which demands an aggressive foreign policy vis-a-vis Turkey and Macedonia, also campaigns on anti-immigration themes, singling out, in particular, Albanian immigrants as the source of criminality. In the October 2002 municipal and prefecture elections, the party polled the highest vote for a nationalist party for twenty years, with 1.5 per cent of the vote. Although the results do not mean that the Hellenic Front has any elected mayors, three important members of the party, Kostas Kardaras, Giorgos Sagias and Giorgos Kokogias were elected as councillors in the municipalities of Karditsa (where the Hellenic Front scored 4.5 per cent of the vote), Lamia and Siatista. In elections for the prefecture, the Hellenic Front scored particularly well in the East Attica area of greater Athens. |