National Alignment Εθνική Παράταξη | |
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| Founder | Stefanos Stefanopoulos |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Dissolved | 1981 |
| Merged into | New Democracy |
| Ideology | Greek nationalism Royalism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Far-right[1] |
National Alignment (EP,Greek: Εθνική Παράταξις (Ε.Π.),Ethniki Parataxis) was anationalist-conservativeGreek political party that contested only the1977 legislative election, winning 7% of the vote and five seats. It was founded by conservatives who split fromKonstantinos Karamanlis and hisNew Democracy party, who resented Karamanlis moving towards the center and distancing himself from hard-right elements, and alleged that Karamanlis had given too many concessions to the left, in particular by legalizing theCommunist Party of Greece and overseeing the imprisonment of the leaders of the1967–1974 junta. The EP's leader wasStefanos Stefanopoulos (who had briefly been prime minister in 1965, duringApostasia), and its deputy leader wasSpyros Theotokis (a former member of theNational Radical Union). Although the party was not officiallyroyalist, Theotokis was a noted royalist, giving the party somewhat of an association with the monarchist right.
The party merged into New Democracy before the1981 election, mollified by some concessions fromGeorge Rallis, and giving as a reason its desire to avoid splitting the "anti-Marxist" front. Theotokis, by that time the EP's leader, gained a parliamentary seat in the election as a New Democracy deputy.
| Results, 1993-1999 (year links to election page) | ||||||||
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| Year | Type of Election | Votes | % | Mandates | ||||
| 1977 | Parliament | 349,988 | 6.82 | 5 | ||||
And finally, four minor far-right parties have been significant, the National Alignment during the 1970s, the National Political Union (EPEN) during the 1980s, the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) from 2002 to 2012 and the extreme right Golden Dawn from 2012 until 2019.