Greece

Greece (Hellenic Front)

1.5%
 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.

Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS)

Led by Giorgios Karatzaferis

4.1%
 of the vote in the June 2004 European parliament elections

This extreme-right party with links to the Danish People's Party was founded in 2001 but won its first electoral breakthrough in the June 2004 European election. LAOS won 4.12 per cent of the vote and has one MEP, its leader, in the European parliament. Karatzaferis was earlier expelled from the New Democracy Party and has been accused of anti-Semitism and xenophobia. In the general election of March 2004 LAOS polled 2.1 per cent of the vote, failing to win a parliamentary seat.