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Helena Smith in Athens

Greek court strips three far-right MPs of seats over electoral fraud

Hellenic Parliament building
The court said that although Vasilis Stigkas was the Spartans elected leader, Ilias Kasidiaris pulled the strings. Photograph: MikeLaptev/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A landmark court decision has dealt a blow to the far-right movement in Greece after MPs with the neo-fascist Spartans party were deprived of seats in parliament.

Citing electoral fraud, a specially assembled electoral tribunal stripped three of the group’s lawmakers, including its leader, of their status in a move that, for the first time since the collapse of military rule, leaves Athens’ 300-seat parliament operating with just 297 MPs.

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