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Antonis Samaras' hard-right friends
Chrysanthos Lazaridis, Failos Kranidiotis, Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis: Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hard-right friends, ministers and advisors
It's not only Pasok and Syriza where you'll hear people saying that the country is being ruled by a group of hard right-wing friends of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, but also in New Democracy, where there is increasing resentment over some of the figures the prime minister has surrounded himself with.
The efforts of the prime minister's office to present the backroom talks between Takis Baltakos and Golden Dawn as some kind of personal initiative on the party of the former cabinet secretary have stumbled because its common knowledge that there are there hard-right elements in the government.
Apart from Baltakos, other powerful hard-right elements in Samaras' environment include Chrysanthos Lazaridis, Failos Kranidiotis, Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis, while the prime minister's communications unit is run by George Mouroutis.
All of them share a common characteristic: they don't have a New Democracy pedigree. Some are personal friends of Samaras from his days as leader of Political Spring (a rightwing party he set in 1993 after being sacked as New Democracy foreign minister over his hardline stance on the Macedonia naming dispute). Others were involved in Network 21, a nationalist think-tank set up in 1997. Another group defected from the rightwing populist Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos) party.
For this reason, these figures have been repeatedly targeted by New Democracy's centrist wing of the as well as by Pasok. Up to now at least, the appeal of power has managed to drown out the disquiet over Samaras' hard-right men.
Chrysanthos Lazaridis
An adviser to the prime minister and an MP, Chrysanthos Lazaridis is not considered to be as hard right as others, but he has displayed an obsession with the left, an issue he shares with Samaras. He is believed to have come up with New Democracy's version of the theory of the two extremes, which he used, after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn supporter in September 2013, to try and present Syriza as a party beyond the constitutional pale. That drew criticism from centrist figures within New Democracy, including former government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros and former interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
Born in New York in 1954, Lazaridis was involved in the left from a young age. He was arrested during the junta for his involvement in the Polytechnic uprising, was tortured and remained in prison until the fall of the regime. After the restoration of democracy, he became a member of the Communist Party of Greece (Interior) and served as deputy leader of the National Students' Union of Greece (Efee) under Christos Papoutsis, who would become a Pasok minister.
During his postgraduate studies in economics in London and New York, he became influenced by the ideas of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He became associated with Samaras through Network 21, the infamous nationalist-patriotic think tank, in which he and Failos Kranidiotis were involved.
Failos Kranidiotis
The lawyer in Greece for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was captured by Turkish agents in Kenya while being taken from the Greek ambassador's residence in Nairobi in 1999, Failos Kranidiotis, like Lazaridis, meet Samaras through Network 21, the founding of which in 1997 the prime minister had described as a momentous event.
This marginal think tank had as its aim the "the patriotic awakening of the Greeks", with plenty of doses of Greek Christian Orthodoxy.
In 2005, representatives of the Network wrote newspaper column pieces attacking New Democracy's then leader Kostas Karamanlis after he issued a statement on the death of Harilaos Florakis, who led the Communist Party from 1972 to 1989. They also called for the restoration of the prestige of the military and police.
Kranidiotis, apart from being a "a personal friend of Samaras", as he has stated, was elected a member of New Democracy's political committee, its highest body, at the party's conference last June, after many failed attempts despite his privileged position in Samaras' circle.
After the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn supporter in September 2013, Kranidiotis maintained that the main problem was leftwing violence. Despite the official government line taken against Golden Dawn in October, he insisted that he would not condemn "nationalists and patriot", but would reserve his "bullets" for the real enemy. That comment resulted in him being summoned to New Democracy's headquarters by the party's secretary to explain himself.
Following intense opposition from within New Democracy, Kranidiotis announced on Monday that he would not be a candidate for New Democracy in May's Parliament European elections.
Makis Voridis
The door to Maximos mansion, the prime minister's official residence and office, is always open for Makis Voridis and not only because of his status as parliamentary representative of New Democracy's parliamentary faction. A former Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos) MP, he joined New Democracy in February 2012 and has become one of Samaras' closest contacts.
But 30 years ago, Voridis was involved in the National Political Union (Epen), a far-right political party set by jailed former junta leader Georgios Papadopoulos, who appointed him as leader of its youth wing, to succeed Nikos Michaloliakos, who now leads Golden Dawn. A photograph dating from 1985 shows Voridis, wielding a home-made axe-in his hand, participating in patrols around the Athens law school in pursuit of leftist fellow students.
Voridis later went on to found Hellenic Front, an extreme rightwing party, which he led, in 2005, into Laos. In November 2011, he was appointed transport minister in the Lucas Papademos government. Laos expelled him in February after he voted for the second memorandum package.
Despite his hard-right history, Voridis was among those officials who called for the dissolution of Golden Dawn following the Fyssas murder. At a meeting in the prime minister's office on the morning of 28 September 2013, the day Golden Dawn's leaders were arrested, he said that the murder meant the neonazi party could not be used as a government crutch.
Adonis Georgiadis
The health minister is a topic in itself. From selling books with nationalistic and antisemitic content on TV to being publisher of his Greek History and Greek Education magazines, Adonis Georgiades was elected for Laos in 2007 and, like Voridis, first became a minister in the Papademos government and joined New Democracy after being expelled from Laos for voting for the second memorandum. In the last cabinet reshuffle, in June 2013, he received the health portfolio, where he has applied troika policies with great enthusiasm.
While Baltakos, the former cabinet secretary, declared himself to be an "anticommunist", Georgiadis has told parliament that he hates communists.
The hard-right friends of Greece's prime minister Samaras
Links ist offenbar sehr dehnbar wenn sie mit sowas zusammenarbeiten.
Der Artikel ist 2 Jahre nach dem 18%-Tief... Na wer hat ihm denn vielleicht geholfen sich im 2. Wahlgang zu erholen?
Antonis Samaras' hard-right friends
Chrysanthos Lazaridis, Failos Kranidiotis, Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis: Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hard-right friends, ministers and advisors
It's not only Pasok and Syriza where you'll hear people saying that the country is being ruled by a group of hard right-wing friends of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, but also in New Democracy, where there is increasing resentment over some of the figures the prime minister has surrounded himself with.
The efforts of the prime minister's office to present the backroom talks between Takis Baltakos and Golden Dawn as some kind of personal initiative on the party of the former cabinet secretary have stumbled because its common knowledge that there are there hard-right elements in the government.
Apart from Baltakos, other powerful hard-right elements in Samaras' environment include Chrysanthos Lazaridis, Failos Kranidiotis, Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis, while the prime minister's communications unit is run by George Mouroutis.
All of them share a common characteristic: they don't have a New Democracy pedigree. Some are personal friends of Samaras from his days as leader of Political Spring (a rightwing party he set in 1993 after being sacked as New Democracy foreign minister over his hardline stance on the Macedonia naming dispute). Others were involved in Network 21, a nationalist think-tank set up in 1997. Another group defected from the rightwing populist Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos) party.
For this reason, these figures have been repeatedly targeted by New Democracy's centrist wing of the as well as by Pasok. Up to now at least, the appeal of power has managed to drown out the disquiet over Samaras' hard-right men.
Chrysanthos Lazaridis
An adviser to the prime minister and an MP, Chrysanthos Lazaridis is not considered to be as hard right as others, but he has displayed an obsession with the left, an issue he shares with Samaras. He is believed to have come up with New Democracy's version of the theory of the two extremes, which he used, after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn supporter in September 2013, to try and present Syriza as a party beyond the constitutional pale. That drew criticism from centrist figures within New Democracy, including former government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros and former interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
Born in New York in 1954, Lazaridis was involved in the left from a young age. He was arrested during the junta for his involvement in the Polytechnic uprising, was tortured and remained in prison until the fall of the regime. After the restoration of democracy, he became a member of the Communist Party of Greece (Interior) and served as deputy leader of the National Students' Union of Greece (Efee) under Christos Papoutsis, who would become a Pasok minister.
During his postgraduate studies in economics in London and New York, he became influenced by the ideas of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He became associated with Samaras through Network 21, the infamous nationalist-patriotic think tank, in which he and Failos Kranidiotis were involved.
Failos Kranidiotis
The lawyer in Greece for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was captured by Turkish agents in Kenya while being taken from the Greek ambassador's residence in Nairobi in 1999, Failos Kranidiotis, like Lazaridis, meet Samaras through Network 21, the founding of which in 1997 the prime minister had described as a momentous event.
This marginal think tank had as its aim the "the patriotic awakening of the Greeks", with plenty of doses of Greek Christian Orthodoxy.
In 2005, representatives of the Network wrote newspaper column pieces attacking New Democracy's then leader Kostas Karamanlis after he issued a statement on the death of Harilaos Florakis, who led the Communist Party from 1972 to 1989. They also called for the restoration of the prestige of the military and police.
Kranidiotis, apart from being a "a personal friend of Samaras", as he has stated, was elected a member of New Democracy's political committee, its highest body, at the party's conference last June, after many failed attempts despite his privileged position in Samaras' circle.
After the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn supporter in September 2013, Kranidiotis maintained that the main problem was leftwing violence. Despite the official government line taken against Golden Dawn in October, he insisted that he would not condemn "nationalists and patriot", but would reserve his "bullets" for the real enemy. That comment resulted in him being summoned to New Democracy's headquarters by the party's secretary to explain himself.
Following intense opposition from within New Democracy, Kranidiotis announced on Monday that he would not be a candidate for New Democracy in May's Parliament European elections.
Makis Voridis
The door to Maximos mansion, the prime minister's official residence and office, is always open for Makis Voridis and not only because of his status as parliamentary representative of New Democracy's parliamentary faction. A former Popular Orthodox Rally (Laos) MP, he joined New Democracy in February 2012 and has become one of Samaras' closest contacts.
But 30 years ago, Voridis was involved in the National Political Union (Epen), a far-right political party set by jailed former junta leader Georgios Papadopoulos, who appointed him as leader of its youth wing, to succeed Nikos Michaloliakos, who now leads Golden Dawn. A photograph dating from 1985 shows Voridis, wielding a home-made axe-in his hand, participating in patrols around the Athens law school in pursuit of leftist fellow students.
Voridis later went on to found Hellenic Front, an extreme rightwing party, which he led, in 2005, into Laos. In November 2011, he was appointed transport minister in the Lucas Papademos government. Laos expelled him in February after he voted for the second memorandum package.
Despite his hard-right history, Voridis was among those officials who called for the dissolution of Golden Dawn following the Fyssas murder. At a meeting in the prime minister's office on the morning of 28 September 2013, the day Golden Dawn's leaders were arrested, he said that the murder meant the neonazi party could not be used as a government crutch.
Adonis Georgiadis
The health minister is a topic in itself. From selling books with nationalistic and antisemitic content on TV to being publisher of his Greek History and Greek Education magazines, Adonis Georgiades was elected for Laos in 2007 and, like Voridis, first became a minister in the Papademos government and joined New Democracy after being expelled from Laos for voting for the second memorandum. In the last cabinet reshuffle, in June 2013, he received the health portfolio, where he has applied troika policies with great enthusiasm.
While Baltakos, the former cabinet secretary, declared himself to be an "anticommunist", Georgiadis has told parliament that he hates communists.
The hard-right friends of Greece's prime minister Samaras
Links ist offenbar sehr dehnbar wenn sie mit sowas zusammenarbeiten.
Der Artikel ist 2 Jahre nach dem 18%-Tief... Na wer hat ihm denn vielleicht geholfen sich im 2. Wahlgang zu erholen?
Make-donia
Solidarity with Ambrosuis
Und was ist dann Jeffry Papandreou der Präsident der Sozialistischen internationalen ??
"Seit Januar 2006 steht der Vorsitzende der PASOK , Georgios Papandreou, an der Spitze der Sozialistischen Internationale
. Als Nicht-Regierungs-Organisation besitzt die SI Beraterstatus bei den Vereinten Nationen."
Junge junge hier laufen ja einige Blinschleichen rum, jetzt verstehe ich wieso die betrügerische linke Ideologie Menschen täuschen kann. Dies liegt mit Sicherheit am IQ dieser Getäuschten
. Als Nicht-Regierungs-Organisation besitzt die SI Beraterstatus bei den Vereinten Nationen."
Junge junge hier laufen ja einige Blinschleichen rum, jetzt verstehe ich wieso die betrügerische linke Ideologie Menschen täuschen kann. Dies liegt mit Sicherheit am IQ dieser Getäuschten
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@Missy
Die Hauszeitung der betrügerischen Linke Enet. Für die ist jeder Far Right der ihr betrügerischen Spiel durschaut oder nicht 100 % ihr ergeben ist. Ich weiß immer noch nicht was du Samaras konkret vorwirfst Missy??
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Venizelos ist links, aber nicht dogmatisch, und obwohl ich ihn nicht ausstehen kann, muss man aber anerkennen, dass er einer der wenigen Linken ist , der weiß von was er redet und schon ein Hirn hat. Dieser Umstand irritiert dich weil Hirn und Links meist sich ausschließt. Deshalb kannst du ihn nicht als linken identifizieren
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Wo ist der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Stimmeneinbruch der ersten Wahl 2012,dem beitreten Laos-Mitgliedern in die Partei und dann der erneute Stimmenanstieg in der nächsten wahl im selben Jahr :-k
Da hat sich wer scheinbar von rechts-außen Hilfe geholt.
Wenn die PASOK so links ist hätte sie doch nicht einfach mit einem Typen kooperiert, der mit Rechtextremisten/-populisten wie Voridis abhängt.
Wie links ist PASOK wenn sie mit sowas zusammenarbeiten? Wie moderat und sauber ist ein Politiker, der seine Reihen mit laos-Mitgliedern füllt?
Er scheint dann doch nur ein Populist zu sein der keine festen Prinzipien hat und einfach an der Spitze sein will.
Was wundert da ein Korruptionsskandal bei einem der schon so shifty ist.
Und dann noch schön die kacke hervorgeholt von einem untergehenden Tsipras, der auch shifty ist
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Bester Grieche.
Sie haben keine Berechtigung Anhänge anzusehen. Anhänge sind ausgeblendet.
Greco
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Und was ist dann Jeffry Papandreou der Präsident der Sozialistischen internationalen ??
"Seit Januar 2006 steht der Vorsitzende der PASOK , Georgios Papandreou, an der Spitze der Sozialistischen Internationale
. Als Nicht-Regierungs-Organisation besitzt die SI Beraterstatus bei den Vereinten Nationen."
Junge junge hier laufen ja einige Blinschleichen rum, jetzt verstehe ich wieso die betrügerische linke Ideologie Menschen täuschen kann. Dies liegt mit Sicherheit am IQ dieser Getäuschten
Was soll mit ihm sein, er ist ein Dummkopf und Opfer, genau so wie du.
Kannst du nicht lesen, hab ich Giorgaki erwähnt?
Und hör mal auf die Leute hier zu beleidigen du Intelligenzbestie.
Dir hat der liebe Gott die eine Hirnnwindung mehr als einem Huhn nur gegeben, damit du nicht auf den Wohnzimmerschrank kackst.
Make-donia
Solidarity with Ambrosuis
ich bezweifle Stark, dass für den Stimmenanstieg bei der 2 Wahl von Samaras Andonis Georgiadis der Grund gewesen sein soll. Er hat zwar eine gewisse Stammwählerschaft, aber so weit würde ich nicht gehen. Es war doch eher so, dass nach dem knappen Ergebnis, die Leute schon besorgt waren, dass die gestörten Truppe von Syriza das Land regieren soll. Außerdem sehe ich jetzt nicht das große Problem dabei, was man Samaras vorwerfen könnte, dass einer wie Georgiadis bei der Nd ist. Ich stimme mit Georgiadis darüber ein, dass in Griechenland seit 1980 eine massive kleptokratische Linke im Staatswesen sich festgesetzt hat, aber ich stimme mit ihm nicht darüber ein, dass man mit der Eu dieses Problem lösen könnte. Die Eu hat es erst ermöglicht , dass die linke Kleptokratie sich festsetzen konnte. Und vor allem verstehe ich das nicht, weil die Eu und die Medien ( Deutschland z.b) ihn als Rechtpopulisten und Antisemiten verunglimpfen. Die wollen ihn nicht in irgendeine Position haben.Wo ist der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Stimmeneinbruch der ersten Wahl 2012,dem beitreten Laos-Mitgliedern in die Partei und dann der erneute Stimmenanstieg in der nächsten wahl im selben Jahr :-k
Da hat sich wer scheinbar von rechts-außen Hilfe geholt.
Wenn die PASOK so links ist hätte sie doch nicht einfach mit einem Typen kooperiert, der mit Rechtextremisten/-populisten wie Voridis abhängt.
Wie links ist PASOK wenn sie mit sowas zusammenarbeiten? Wie moderat und sauber ist ein Politiker, der seine Reihen mit laos-Mitgliedern füllt?
Er scheint dann doch nur ein Populist zu sein der keine festen Prinzipien hat und einfach an der Spitze sein will.
Was wundert da ein Korruptionsskandal bei einem der schon so shifty ist.
Und dann noch schön die kacke hervorgeholt von einem untergehenden Tsipras, der auch shifty ist
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Du hast behauptet, dass nach Andreas Papandreou Pasok nicht links ist. Aber Jeffry der Präsident der Sozialistischen Internationalen ist doch nach Andreas ?? oder nicht ?? also von wegen pasok war nicht links.
Greco
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@ Missy
Lass ihn erzählen was er will.
Erst letztes Jahr bei der Wahl des neuen ND Parteichefs hat Mitsotakis auch so ein Spiel abgezogen.
Er bot Georgiadis den Posten des Vize an und kassierte im 2ten Wahlgang seine Stimmen um gegen den ganz klaren Favoriten Meimarakis zu gewinnen.
Und so ist ein Drecksfaschist jetzt Vize-Chef der Nea Dimokratie.
Lass ihn erzählen was er will.
Erst letztes Jahr bei der Wahl des neuen ND Parteichefs hat Mitsotakis auch so ein Spiel abgezogen.
Er bot Georgiadis den Posten des Vize an und kassierte im 2ten Wahlgang seine Stimmen um gegen den ganz klaren Favoriten Meimarakis zu gewinnen.
Und so ist ein Drecksfaschist jetzt Vize-Chef der Nea Dimokratie.