Patriotic Alliance (

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: Πατριωτική Συμμαχία, ΠΑΤΡΙ.Σ.; πατρίς ''patris'' means fatherland in Greek) was a short-lived

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political party, founded in 2004. It was a member party of the

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Organisation and activities

On April 21, 2004, the Golden Dawn (''Chrysi Avgi''), former members of the

Popular Orthodox Rally The Popular Orthodox Rally or People's Orthodox Alarm (Greek language, Greek: Λαϊκός Ορθόδοξος Συναγερμός, ''Laikós Orthódoxos Synagermós''), often abbreviated to LAOS (ΛΑ.Ο.Σ.) as a pun on the Greek word for ''peo ...

and a few other members of minor

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groups, announced the foundation of Patriotic Alliance. The leader of the party was Dimitrios Zaphiropoulos (a former leading member of Golden Dawn) and its deputy was Ilias Panagiotaros. Other leading members of the party were

Nikolaos Michaloliakos Nikolaos G. Michaloliakos ( el, Νικόλαος Γ. Μιχαλολιάκος, ; born 11 December 1957) is a Greek politician and convicted criminal. He is the founder and leader of the far-right party Golden Dawn. In October 2020, he and 67 oth ...

, leader of Golden Dawn, and Spyridon Zournatzis, former member of the

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and former leading member of the far-right National Political Union. Patriotic Alliance received 10,618 votes (0.17% of votes cast) in the 2004 European Parliament elections. The party also participated in the 2006 Athens municipal elections on the "Athens Greek City" (Αθήνα Πόλις Ελληνική - Athina Polis Elliniki) slate, gaining 3,705 votes, 1.34% of votes cast. The party publishes the newspaper ''

Eleftheros Kosmos ''Eleftheros Kosmos'' ( el, Ελεύθερος Κόσμος, ''Free World'') is the oldest nationalist newspaper in Greece. History Initial Period (1966-1982) ''Eleftheros Kosmos'' was founded on July 27, 1966, by Savvas Konstantopoulos (191 ...

''.

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groups accused Patriotic Alliance for being simply the new name of the Golden Dawn party. Activities by Patriotic Alliance's members were often attributed to Golden Dawn (even by themselves).An article from the website of Patriotic Alliance
stating that "those who contributed mostly in our political campaign were the youth of Chrysi Avgi".

Disbandment

In January 2007, Patriotic Alliance ceased its political activities, after the interruption of support that accepted from the members and leadership of Golden Dawn. Golden Dawn claimed that the Patriotic Alliance began as a nationalist institution but had acquired finally some ideological content that led to gullible anachronisms that were connected with the former arrangement of the Greek military coup d'état (1967–1974). Seeing that its continuation of the alliance was fruitless, it asked and they achieved the interruption of all political collaborations that led to the end of the term "Alliance" and finally all party's activities. The newspaper of the party, ''

'', continues to be published.

References

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External links

Official website of the ''Eleftheros Kosmos'' newspaper
Defunct nationalist parties in Greece Neo-fascist parties Political parties established in 2004 2004 establishments in Greece 2007 disestablishments in Greece Political parties disestablished in 2007 Metaxist parties