Greece: The Return of the Right
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Asimakopoulos, V. and Fouskas, V. 2023. Greece: The Return of the Right. The Political Quarterly. 94 (4), pp. 662-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13339
Authors | Asimakopoulos, V. and Fouskas, V. |
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Abstract | New Democracy (ND), the centre-right party founded by Constantine Karamanlis in summer 1974 and currently led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, scion of a powerful political family, won the twin electoral contest of May and June 2023 with a landslide. The victory was comprehensive both in terms the votes received – over 40% of those who cast their vote (abstention was over 45%) – and because of the near collapse of Syriza (17,83%) and the weak recovery of the other centre-left party, PASOK (11,46%). Moreover, far-right and conservative parties, three in total, entered parliament amassing some 12% of the vote. We argue that two strictly interlinked phenomena account for these developments. The first was the eclipse of conditions that created the Syriza phenomenon in Greece (the 2010-15 debt crisis); and the second was the lack of a credible programmatic alternative that speaks to middle classes on behalf of both centre-left parties. |
Journal | The Political Quarterly |
Journal citation | 94 (4), pp. 662-667 |
ISSN | 0032-3179 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Anyone |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13339 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 14 Nov 2023 |
Dec 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 25 Oct 2023 |
Deposited | 08 Nov 2023 |
External resource | Greece: The Return of the Right |
Copyright holder | © 2023, Wiley |
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Additional information | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Asimakopoulos, V. and Fouskas, V. 2023. Greece: The Return of the Right. The Political Quarterly, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-923X.13339 |
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