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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nicholas Paphitis and Costas Kantouris

As Greece's center-right heads for a landslide, fringe parties jostle to squeeze into Parliament

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With the formerly ascendant, Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party broken, its leadership in prison, and the anti-Western left defanged, Greece’s political fringes are looking more gauche than sinister.

Still, up to five small parties — three on the far right and two on the far left — could conceivably reach the 3% support needed to enter Parliament in Sunday's repeat elections, despite a swing back to mainstream politicians as the scars of Greece’s 10-year financial crisis gradually heal.

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