#GREECE: Small Right -Wing Party Banned By Lawmakers

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Greek MPs have voted to ban the extreme-right Greeks-National Party from running in elections, aiming to block its members linked to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn criminal organization from entering parliament.

The Greeks-National Party was founded two years ago by former lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris, who is currently serving a more than 13-year prison sentence over his leading role in Golden Dawn, which was declared a criminal organization in 2020 for charges including murder, racist violence and money laundering. Kasidiaris still managed to gain significant support from messages posted on YouTube while in jail.

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#ITALY: Likely Future PM Meloni Rejects Fascist Label, Says She Is Closer To UK's Tories

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Giorgia Meloni, the favorite to become Italy’s next prime minister, has rejected claims that a government led by her far-right party could herald a fascist revival, instead likening her tribe to Britain’s ruling Conservatives.

The “Tories” as the U.K.’s governing party is also known, have themselves been criticized for pursuing radical right-wing policies, after leading the country out of the European Union, and planning to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, among other populist policies.

A recent poll had her "Brothers of Italy" party in a dead heat with the left-leaning Democratic Party. 

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