Why does Greece have so many political parties?

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  1. Χρήση Αυγή; Δημοκρατική Αριστερά;

    “Από πότε είναι αυτή η εφημερίδα;!”

  2. Four parties in this picture don’t even exist anymore.

    Five if you count PASOK turning into KINAL.

    Six if you count SYRIZA turning into SYRIZA-PS

    Let’s just say that Greek political life is pretty volatile.

  3. We have way more than those. They are just not in the parliment. Let me explain those ones. To begin with we have KKE who are on the far left, anti EU, anti NATO. The one with the weird symbol and no name is golden dawn, they were far rigth, anti EU, I dont know about their opinion on NATO though, they were recently classified a terrorist organization and their leadership found guilty of murder. The one with the many flags is SYRIZA they are left to center left and are considered the opposition, pro EU and NATo. The blue one is new democracy and is curently the ruling party, neoliberal pro EU pro nato. I have never seen the one with the red flag though. The one with the Green sun is PASOK which stand for pan-hellenic socialist movement, pro EU pro NATO, you could call them social democrats. I dont know all the other ones

  4. DEMOCRACEEEEYYY YEEHAA

    Yeah… Όπου λαλούν πολλοί κοκοροι… – dunno how to translate that

  5. Actually about 15-25 parties take part in every national election. These just happen to be the parties represented in the parliament after the 2012 elections.

  6. They aren’t that many
    In Finland for example 5 parties are ruling together ATM
    But we also aren’t america, having only 2

  7. OP are you American by any chance? Most European parliamentary democracies have a ton of major and minor parties. Even those with FPTP like the UK have many parties.

    In fact, some European countries have more parties represented in their parliaments in comparison to Greece.

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