8 political parties enter parliament

On Sunday 25 June, eight political parties entered parliament. In the 21 May elections held about a month ago, five parties had managed to enter the parliament.

In the 21 May elections, only Greek Solution entered the parliament among the parties on the extreme right, while this number increased to three in the 25 June elections. In addition to Greek Solution, the far-right parties Spartans and Niki will be represented in the parliament with a total of 34 deputies.

As a result of the legal arrangement passed by the Mitsotakis government in the parliament, the Greeks Party founded by the former deputy of the racist Golden Dawn Party Ilias Kasidiaris before the general elections on 21 May and the alliance called "Greeks for Homeland and Freedom" consisting of independent deputy candidates including Kasidiaris before the general elections on 25 June were prevented from entering the elections by a judicial decision.

FAR-RIGHT PARTY WITHOUT EVEN A PARTY OFFICE
The Spartans Party, which Kasidiaris had announced his support for just before the June 21 elections, made a surprise breakthrough and received 4.64 per cent of the vote.

Vasilis Stingas, the leader of the party, which does not even have an official office yet, used the office allocated by one of the party members to make a press statement in which he expressed his special thanks to Kasidiaris.

KONSTANTOPOULOU'S PARTY IS ALSO IN PARLIAMENT
Meanwhile, the Freedom Cruise, headed by Zoi Konstantopoulou, who left Siriza, received 3.17 per cent of the votes and managed to be represented in the parliament with eight deputies.

NO OPPOSITION PARTY CAN SUBMIT A NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION ON ITS OWN
According to the Constitution, a motion of no-confidence requires at least 50 MPs to sign, but in the current parliamentary arithmetic, no single party, including the main opposition, has this power.