Anexartiti Ellines

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Ανεξάρτητοι Έλληνες
Independent Greeks
Party leader Panos Kammenos
Party leader Panos Kammenos
Secretary General Michalis Giannakis
founding February 24, 2012
Headquarters Athens
Alignment Right-wing populism
National
conservatism EU skepticism
Nationalism
Colours) Light Blue
Parliament seats
0/300
MEPs
0/21
Website anexartitoiellines.gr

Anexartiti Ellines (abbreviation: ANEL , Greek Ανεξάρτητοι Έλληνες , ΑΝΕΛ , German: Independent Greeks , alternative transcription: Aneksartitoi Ellines ) is a right-wing populist Greek political party . It was founded on February 24, 2012 by Member of Parliament Panos Kammenos , a former member of the Nea Dimokratia . The party opposes the austerity policy that the donor countries of the euro zone are demanding of Greece in the sovereign debt crisis . From January 27, 2015 to August 27, 2015, ANEL was involved in the Alexis Tsipras government under the leadership of SYRIZA . After the new election in September 2015 , ANEL became a coalition partner of SYRIZA again and formed a SYRIZA / ANEL government until 2019.

Kammenos, a former deputy minister, was expelled from the Nea Dimokratia faction after voting in a confidence vote against the coalition government of Prime Minister Loukas Papadimos . Kammenos presented the founding declaration for the new party symbolically on March 11, 2012 in the village of Distomo , where the German Waffen SS had carried out a massacre in 1944 . Kammenos appeals to anti-German resentment. In an ANEL election brochure before the parliamentary elections in Greece in September 2015 , Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble were caricatured, who were being fought by an ANEL pest spray

Kammenos claims Greece is occupied by the EU and the banks and the existing loan agreement is unconstitutional. He wants to repay only 110 billion euros of the Greek national debt. He called for a non-partisan committee that would be given emergency powers to clarify how Greece was led into the economic crisis. He proclaims a “national awakening and rising” and suspects that Greece has fallen victim to an “international conspiracy”. Ten former NEA MPs joined the party.

ANEL campaigned for ministers, parliamentarians and civil servants to be lifted immunity from prosecution and to punish those responsible for the crisis ahead of the parliamentary elections in May 2012 . She called for the protection of national sovereignty, German reparations payments and the termination of the "memorandum" of the agreements with the EU , IMF and ECB (" Troika ") on austerity and reform requirements as a condition for financial aid.

In the parliamentary elections on May 6, 2012, the party received 10.6 percent of the vote and moved into the Greek parliament with 33 members . In the new election on June 17, 2012 , it reached 7.5 percent and remained the fourth largest group with 20 seats. In the election on January 25, 2015 , the party was the sixth strongest party with 4.8 percent (13 seats) and agreed on a coalition with the left-wing SYRIZA under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ; Kammenos became Minister of Defense. In June 2018, Kammenos declared that his party rejected the compromise previously found in the dispute over the name of Macedonia . In the context of the dispute over Macedonia, he resigned as defense minister in mid-January 2019. His party is withdrawing from the government.

In the European Parliament , at the beginning of the 2014-2019 legislative period, the ANEL was a member of the EU-critical group European Conservatives and Reformists through MP Notis Marias , in which the Polish PiS , the British Tories and the German parties LKR and Family are represented. However, Marias was expelled from the party in January 2015 and has been an independent member of parliament ever since.

Results of parliamentary elections

year Percent% Seats be right Party leader
2012 (May) 10.60 33 670.957 Panos Kammenos
2012 (June) 7.51 20th 462.456 Panos Kammenos
2015 (January) 4.75 13 293,371 Panos Kammenos
2015 (September) 3.69 10 200,423 Panos Kammenos
Source:

Greek Ministry of the Interior (election 2012 (May & June))

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Neophytos Loizides: The Politics of Majority Nationalism: Framing Peace, stalemates, and Crises . Stanford University Press, 2015, pp. Xxv.
  2. ^ Independent Greeks: Who are Syriza's right-wing coalition partners and what do they want? . In: Independent , 26/1/2015. Accessed December 23, 2017. 
  3. ↑ Ποιοί είναι οι Ανεξάρτητοι Έλληνες; . 3/2/2015. Accessed December 23, 2017. 
  4. ↑ FT: Η υπόθεση Καμμένου θα μπορούσε να αποσταθεροποιήσει την κυβέρνηση . In: Capital.gr , 27/11/2017. Accessed December 23, 2017. 
  5. ↑ Φόβος και οπισθοδρόμηση . In: Η Καθημερινή , 22/11/2012. Retrieved on 23 Δεκεμβρίου 2017. 
  6. ↑ Parliamentary elections in Greece: high losses for government parties. In: Federal Center for Political Education. May 7, 2012, accessed February 5, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b c Kammenos Introduces Independent Greeks. (No longer available online.) In: Athens News. March 11, 2012, archived from the original on March 14, 2012 ; accessed on April 23, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.athensnews.gr
  8. ↑ a b Boom for Greece's opponents of the austerity policy. In: NZZ . April 16, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2012 .
  9. ↑ ANEL election brochure before the parliamentary elections in September 2015, reproduced by Antenna.gr
  10. ↑ Tsipras is the new Greek Prime Minister. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
  11. ^ Giorgos Christides: Greco-Macedonian unification: Victory of the West, debacle for Russia. In: www.spiegel.de. June 13, 2018, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  12. ^ Because of Macedonia Agreement: Greece's Defense Minister resigns. In: www.spiegel.de. January 13, 2019, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Notis MARIAS. In: www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Official election result 2012, Greek Ministry of the Interior (Greek)