{"id":4868,"date":"2015-01-26T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:09:56","slug":"far-right-golden-dawn-party-takes-third-place-in-greece-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Far-right Golden Dawn party takes third place in Greece elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/226207-golden-dawn-greece-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">Far-right Golden Dawn party takes third place in Greece elections<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Greece\u2019s far-right radical party Golden Dawn is expected to come third in the parliamentary election. The anti-immigrant party with Nazi roots is showing remarkable staying power, despite most of its members and lawmakers facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>News of Golden Dawn\u2019s all-but-official success comes as the far-left Syriza and the Independent Greeks parties, which came in first and second, reached an agreement on the formation of a coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Dawn has secured its place in the parliament with over 6 percent of votes. If victorious, they\u2019ll be contributing 18 MPs to the 300-member parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos and several senior figures in the party are either behind bars or under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Mihaloliakos posted a congratulatory recorded message for his party colleagues, saying\u00a0<em>\u201cwe achieved this great victory despite the fact that we could not be guaranteed an equal and so-called democratic election as the regime likes to call it, shunned by all (media), facing mudslinging and slander from all sides &#8230; having to campaign through a payphone. We have a fresh mandate &#8230; everyone fought to keep Golden Dawn away and they lost. Golden Dawn won.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-right Golden Dawn party takes third place in Greece elections Greece\u2019s far-right radical party Golden Dawn is expected to come third in the parliamentary election. The anti-immigrant party with Nazi roots is showing remarkable staying power, despite most of its members and lawmakers facing criminal charges. News of Golden Dawn\u2019s all-but-official success comes as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2918,2917,2916,1167,1820,2236],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-immigration","tag-far-right-party","tag-golden-dawn","tag-greece","tag-greek-elections","tag-syriza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}