Greece SC bans far-right party from EU elections

Greece's Supreme Court has allowed 31 parties and coalitions to run in the forthcoming European Parliament elections in June, but the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party was excluded, reported Xinhua, quoting Greek national news agency AMNA on Wednesday.

The party is under scrutiny due to links with convicted members of the far-Right Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) party and its former spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris.

In addition, the party is under probe for possible parliamentary elections fraud in June 2023.

The ruling party New Democracy, and opposition parties PASOK and New Left had filed petitions against the Spartans party's participation in the european elections for its alleged ties with Golden Dawn.