New Democracy (political party in the Hellenic Republic): Difference between revisions

New Democracy
New Democracy; Νέα Δημοκρατία
President	Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Spokesperson	Pavlos Marinakis
Founder	Konstantinos Karamanlis
Founded	4 October 1974
Youth wing	Youth Organization of New Democracy
Political orientation	Neoliberalism; Imperialism; Anti-immigration; Zionism; Factions; Neo-fascism; Anti-Semitism
Political position	Right-wing to Far-right

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New Democracy, mockingly called New Dictatorship or No Democracy, is the ruling political party in Greece.

The party has Makis Voridis as Vice President (and also currently Minister of the State), who is an anti-Semite who has cooperated with the CIA-backed military junta of 1967.^[1]

Furthermore, Voridis, as well as other high-ranking party officials (such as the party's vice president, Adonis Georgiadis) are former members of LAOS, a far-right party whose former leader, George Karatzaferis is openly antisemetic. ^[2]

New Democracy Governments

Mitsotakis regime (2019-present)

References

↑ Baboulias Yannis (2018-02-15). "The Far Right Is a Growing Threat in Greece" The Nation. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
↑ New Greek government includes ministers of antisemitic party. CFCA.

[1] Baboulias Yannis (2018-02-15). "The Far Right Is a Growing Threat in Greece" The Nation. Retrieved 2023-11-26.

[CFCA-2] New Greek government includes ministers of antisemitic party. CFCA.

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 === Mitsotakis regime (2019-present) ===
-==== Economic Policies ====
-The New Democracy political party, in government since July 2019, has applied [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] and quasi-[[Fascism|fascist]] policies. It has made massive privatizations in tourism and natural resources<ref/>. Workers' rights have also been severely limited, with strikes being mostly prohibited and with employers having the right to fire employees without giving any notice prior or to give any reason. Collective agreements have been abolished as well.
-[[Censorship]] in media has been increased, with [https://rsf.org/en/index even pro-capitalist western organizations ranking Greece very low in press freedom] and with [https://www.v-dem.net/documents/30/V-dem_democracyreport2023_highres.pdf also pro-capitalist western organizations claiming Greece has a "democratic backsliding" and is becoming increasingly authoritarian].
-==== Government Surveillance ====
-[[Kyriakos Mitsotakis]], the current Greek Prime Minister, has also put the National Information Service as well as the official Greek news agency under his complete control.<ref/> New Democracy, with the support of the PASOK political party, amended a law (specifically 826/145 of the law 2472/1997), regarding wiretappings by the NIS, which practically removed citizens' right to be informed of their surveillance after it had been concluded.<ref/> Ιn 2021 alone, 15,000 surveillance orders were issued.
-This led to a spying scandal ignited in July 2022, when opposition leader Nikos Androulakis, leader of PASOK, revealed he was being wiretapped by Greek authorities by the illegal [[Predator]] software.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Senior European Parliament Member Targeted as Spyware Abuse Spreads|date=2022-07-27|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/world/europe/eu-spyware-predator-pegasus.html|retrieved=2023-04-27}}</ref> The case reached media spotlight, however there have been active efforts from the government to not come to a conclusion. The revelations were followed by the -almost simultaneous- resignations of the head of the National Information Service, Panagiotis Kontoleon, and the General Secretary of the Prime Minister and his nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis.
-Protests also need government approval.
-==== Reaction to Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa ====
-Mitsotakis has supported [["Israel"]] during the [[Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa]], implicitly calling Palestinians "uncivilized people".
-[[File:"Israel" flag in the Hellenic Parliament building.png|thumb|The flag of the Zionist Entity in the Parliament building, Syntagma Square, Athens. ]]
 == References ==
 [[Category:Imperialist political parties]]
 [[Category:Neoliberalism]]