Course of Freedom () is a Greek anti-establishment political party founded on 19 April 2016, by former President of the Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou.

History 
After the agreement for the Third Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece by the first government of SYRIZA-ANEL, Zoe Konstantopoulou dissociated herself from the views of the party and participated in the following legislative elections as the leader of Popular Unity in Athens A'. However, the party did not manage to achieve the electoral threshold for representation in the legislature.

On 19 April 2016, she announced the founding of Course of Freedom. According to its founding declaration, the party's purpose of action consists of democracy, justice, transparency, rights, debt cancellation and claim for World War II reparations.

Konstantopoulou, along with the party, had attended and called for support of the "Macedonia name" anti-Prespa Agreement mass protests of 2018 and 2019, with the slogan "I'm not ceding my homeland", having been the only political figure of the Greek left to openly do so.

Ideology 
Course of Freedom was established on an anti-memoranda ideology, based on its founder's Zoe Konstantopoulou's hardliner opposition to austerity, neoliberalism, "tax inequality", Greece's creditors, and the Troika, and has been seen as "left-wing populist". It has been described by some commentators as "nominally left", or far-left, although Konstantopoulou describes it as anti-establishment and "neither left nor right" instead. The party's political position has also been considered to be "catch-all", accruing support from both left-wing and right-wing voters for generalized anti-establishment positions. The party appeals to nationalist sentiments, and has been labelled as "nationalist left" or left-wing nationalist. 

Course of Freedom's political position has also been evaluated as solely anti-establishment or simply populist "anti-systemic". It is considered to be a sovereignist formation.

Konstantopoulou has criticized privatizations, taxation increases, "media oligarchs", and auctioning off and bank seizures of homes of overindebted families and electronic auctions. The party has also come in support of refugees, the LGBT community, opponents to COVID-19 vaccination, and of victims of sexism and sexual violence.

Course of Freedom is an anti-EU party, with Konstantopoulou calling it a "monstrous creation" lacking in democracy that should be abolished; the party's founding declaration denounces "Eurobureaucracy" as totalitarianism.

Positions 

The party's positions include the cancellation of the country's national debt (that Zoe Konstantopoulou has previously during her time in government affirmed as "illegal, illegitimate, odious and unsustainable" and "unconstitutionally accumulated" based on the report of the Hellenic Parliament's Greek Debt Truth Commission), opposition to the Prespa naming agreement on  North Macedonia's name and calling for a referendum on it, claiming German war reparations and loans of up to €350 billion, additional compensation for Nazi atrocities, and opposition to mandatory vaccination.

Its founding declaration supports positions of popular democracy and participatory democracy, and includes proposals like the institutionalization of mandatory referendums, citizen participation in the justice system, renationalization of all public enterprises and public assets, the dissolution of the HRADF S.A, and an accountancy audit of Greek debt, insurance funds and state-owned institutions.

Election results

Hellenic Parliament

European Parliament

References

2016 establishments in Greece
Euroscepticism in Greece
Political parties established in 2016
Political parties in Greece
Socialist parties in Greece