Talk:New Democracy (Greece)

message: What is the name of the party opposing this one in Greece, i.e. the one that just got slung out? Mr. Jones 11:08, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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message: Hi, you try to add New Democracy as a liberal party. Isn't this a conservative party? Since they align themselves with the International Democratic Union and EPP-ED... Intangible 16:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to see some more interventions before adding the party as a liberal party. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 18:03, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I meant remarks or contributions to this discussion by other editors. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 18:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm against it. —Nightstallion (?) 12:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Personally, i am for it. Indeed, ND is not related with the centrists before the colonels' junta. However, i strongly believe that we must judge parties' ideology by its present policy. Undoubtedly, ND is the political force that express liberalism in Greece. And I tell this because i am a greek citizen and not austrian.
It has no ideology... Mitsos 12:53, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideology of the party

message: I suggest the creation of infoboxes for greek political parties. Greece is one of the last EU countries whose parties have no infoboxes.--Conefst 12:08, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infoboxes 

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replies: text: Fixed. El Greco(talk) 22:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: Look what they did when in power.. no way centre-right. They are centre to centre left.
Reaper7 (talk) 11:15, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree 100%. I am not sure why this party is beinglabelled as conservative or right wing. Please editors, follow their policies and don't trust the KKE that calls ND right wing. ND in any other country in the world would be considered a centre left party - virtually the same as PASOK in policy. Zeno77 (talk) 12:49, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: This party is not Centre-Right

message: I am a Greek, so please let me act as I know more and more accurate information about ND. Not only is it a conservative party since its foundation in 1974 (as it supports formally the Orthodox Church, it is fond of military, social conservatism and against the optional prnting of the denomination of a person in tis ID card in 2000-2001 and also against homosexual marriage), but after the 6th of May elections, ND has gathered many far-right former members such as Athanasios Pleuris, Adonis Georgiadis and others (all of them were members of LAOS or other neonazist or neofascist-nationalistic organisations. So ND must be characterised with today's data as right, social conservative and fiscal liberal, and also fond of xenophobia and nationalism. That's why I cannot understand the label that notes an outdated article.--Πάτρικ 
:You need to provide reliable sources that New Democracy is tending to the far-right. Cheers. – Kosm1fent 19:26, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: LAOS was not really neo-Nazi or neofascist, despite being ultraconservative.Estlandia  (dialogue) 13:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: This party is not just centre right, it is right to far right.

message: In what way is this party centrist?  TURTLOS (talk) 01:41, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centerism? 

message: It has become fashionable since SYRIZA's electoral victory in 2015 to describe SYRIZA (and Podemos, and other anti-austerity leftist parties) as populist, lumping them together with the far right across Europe and presenting New Democracy as anti-populist. I believe that those knowledgeable of Greek politics (and politics of other southern European countries) would recognize that this is an oversimplification produced by conservative and socialist parties that does not accurately reflect the truth. Greek politics, left and right is rife with populist rhetoric and it is hard to see why SYRIZA qualifies and New Democracy does not. In the last few years, particularly under the leadership of Antonis Samaras, New Democracy also attacked the government while in opposition saying that it would renegotiate the terms of the debt, then came to power and did nothing of the sort (unlike SYRIZA which at least tried); terrorized the electorate with Cold War rhetoric claiming that SYRIZA's victory would mean communism and being expelled from "the West"; and even encouraged a media fervor over the supposed discovery of the tomb of Alexander the Great to divert attention from the economy; not to mention the irrationality of voting against austerity measures while in opposition and simultaneously blaming the government for clashing with the creditors. If we take out the labels and try to put our political passions aside, Greek analysts and foreign observers of Greece must admit that populism is an embedded aspect of Greek politics and the old mainstream parties employ it just as much as anyone else.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.69.52.84 (talk) 08:32, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Populism and Greek political parties 

message: * Libertarian_Party_(United_States), note that New Democracy isn't as right as the Rebublican Party (abortion, healthcare etc.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:4113:B100:521:DD0:BDD1:7C5E (talk) 02:01, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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message: New Democracy was founded by Konstantinos Karamanlis, who was Prime Minister of Greece for over seven years as a member of the right-wing Greek Rally party before the rise of a far-right military junta in Greece. Greek Rally used to be a right-wing to far-right party under Alexander Papagos, who supported Georgios Grivas, a former member of the far-right Organization X that had collaborated with Nazis against the resistance movement of ELAS during World War II when Greece was under German occupation. Grivas was the leader of the EOKA guerilla organization that fought against British rule in Cyprus, but Makarios III, the right-wing Archbishop and President of Cyprus, rejected the unification of Cyprus and Greece that Grivas and the junta supported and agreed with Karamanlis about the independence of Cyprus. The centist Democratic Party of Cyprus is supporting Makarios, but allied with the right-wing Solidarity Movement of Eleni Theocharous, a former member of the centre-right Democratic Rally, against current President Nicos Anastasiades, a member of the Democratic Rally who supported the Annan Plan about resolving the Cyprus dispute by accepting the demands of Turkey, an enemy of Greece for the last eight centuries. New Democracy is currently led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a nephew of Eleftherios Venizelos of the centrist Liberal Pary who endorsed the irredentist Megali Idea that originated by the centrist Ioannis Kolettis but is also promoted by the far-right Golden Dawn that represents the ideas of Ion Dragoumis, an opponent of the Megali Idea and Venizelos who is considered to be the founder of modern Greek nationalism. Therefore, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is also the son of Konstantinos Mitsotakis, who was Prime Minister of Greece for three years as a member of New Democracy but founded the centre-right Party of New Liberals after the fall of the junta as a former member of the Centre Union, a centirst party of former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou whose son Andreas and grandson George Papandreou became Prime Ministers after the junta as members of the centre-left PASOK. Dora Bakoyannis, sister of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was a Minister of Foreign Affairs under Kostas Karamanlis, nephew of Konstantinos Karamanlis, but she was expelled from New Democracy by Antonis Samaras, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Konstantinos Mitsotakis who was the leader of the right-wing Political Spring after disagreeing with Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis about the Macedonia naming dispute. Samaras had returned to New Democracy as Leader of the Opposition and rejected the austerity measures of George Papandreou that Bakoyannis had supported before founding the centrist Democratic Alliance. She returned to New Democracy shortly before Samaras became Prime Minister of Greece and continued to implement the austerity measures of Papandreou and Lucas Papademos, who was a technocrat that was supported by both PASOK and New Democracy in a coalition government for a few months before two consecutive elections that led to PASOK and New Democracy continuing their participation in the same government where the Democratic Left of Fotis Kouvelis, a former member of SYRIZA, was also supporting for a few months after the elections. Despite originating from the Centre Union, Konstantinos Mistotakis and Andreas Papandreou became rivals as leader of different parties after the junta when Konstantinos Karamanlis was Prime Minister of Greece. Mistotakis joined New Democracy before Papandreou became Prime Minister while endorsed by former supporters of the United Democratic Left, a left-wing party that had originated from former members of ELAS. United Democratic Left Grigoris Lambrakis had been assassinated when Karamanlis was Prime Minister as a member of the Greek Rally before the junta. Kouvelis was succeeded by Thanasis Theocharopoulos as leader of the Democratic Left after SYRIZA won the elections for the first time. Fofi Gennimata then became leader of PASOK, succeeding Evangelos Venizelos who had supported austerity as a minister in the governments of George Papandreou, Papademos and Samaras. The Movement of Democratic Socialists of George Papandreou was founded in opposition to Venizelos when Samaras was Prime Minister of Greece but supported PASOK under the leadership of Gennimate. Yanis Varoufakis, a former advisor of George Papandreou as Leader of Opposition when Konstas Karamanlis was Prime Minister of Greece, and Zoe Konstantopoulou, daughter of Nikos Kontantopoulos who was a member of Centre Union and PASOK and former leader of SYRIZA, left SYRIZA alongside Panagiotis Lafazanis and supported the Popular Unity party in the elections when SYRIZA was supported by Kouvelis and won re-election after accepting austerity measures alongside New Democracy and PASOK, with the Democratic Left under Theocharopoulos becoming a member of the Movement of Change under PASOK leader Gennimata, before returning to SYRIZA. Varoufakis and Konstantopoulou have left Popular Unity to found their own parties MeRA25 and Course of Freedom, respectively. Therefore, I believe that New Democracy has always been right-wing with Konstantinos Karamanlis representing the majority of the party, where the far-right beliefs of Grivas were represented by Failos Kranidiotis, leader of the far-right New Right party and former member of the Political Spring who was expelled from New Democracy by Kyriakos Mitsotakis due to controversial statements regarding the Macedonia naming dispute. A faction of New Democracy that endorses the views of Papagos is represented by Adonis Georgiadis and Makis Voridis, former members of the right-wing to far-right Popular Orthodox Rally that was founded by former New Democracy member Georgios Karatzaferis. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Dora Bakoyannis and Konstantinos Mitsotakis are representing a centre to centre-right faction of the party as relatives of Eleftherios Venizelos. Just like the Democratic Left and SYRIZA under current leader Alexis Tsipras, PASOK was a centre-left to left-wing party under Andreas Papandreou. PASOK became centre-left under Costas Simitis, centre-left to centre under George Papandreou and centre under Evangelos Venizelos. George Papandreou then became centre-left as leader of the Movement of Democratic Socialists. Gennimata, who is also centre-left as leader of PASOK and Movement for Change and criticized both New Democracy and SYRIZA for austerity, has expelled Venizelos from her party before the last elections. SYRIZA under Konstantopoulos and Alekos Alavanos, Popular Unity and Course of Freedom were left-wing to far-left since they opposed the Communist Party of Greece, a historical far-left party, while MeRA25 is left-wing for being supported by two former PASOK members, specifically Sofia Sakorafa and Kriton Arsenis, the son of Gerasimos Arsenis, a former minister of PASOK and Louka Katseli, who left PASOK under George Papandreou because of austerity.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.54.142.32 (talk) 03:41, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: has left a shortened version on my talk page:  Ezhao02 (talk) 22:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally think that the party should be considered a centre-right to right wing party because the party does contain people who are from the centre or even the centre-left but it also contains people from the far-right.So to appease both the people who describe it as a "far-right neo-nazi party" and the people who call it a "centre to centre-left party"I think we should put as a Centre-right to Right wing party. Takis S1 (talk) 19:44, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centre, centre-right or right-wing? 

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message: The sources that describe the party as centrist are incorrect. The first one comes from the npr source that is not neutral, is fully liberal and there is a whole page about NPR Controversies. The other two, does not say that ND has centrist factions or that the party is centrist. They just mention Mitsotakis' words, that says that the party is moving to the center. This is self-report and of course, is completely wrong about the party's profile. 62.74.13.204 (talk) 00:26, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Done . Greek Rebel (talk) 09:13, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Also New Democracy is not far-right. Reliable sources are saying that it is centre-right to right-wing party. Qba0202 (talk) 15:00, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a baseless claim. In the infobox it is only stated that there's a far-right faction, which does not necessarily moves the party to the far-right position of the political spectrum. --QuintusHaterius (talk) 02:18, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centrism 

message: I've noticed the disruptive addition of content by unregistered users and this still hasn't been settled down. We need to settle a consensus regarding the addition of right-wing populism and far-right factions in the infobox. Are those sources reliable, is the infobox undue? ND has been widely known as Greece's main center-right party, which means that the party definitely has more centrist and more right-wing factions, sources even back up this statement. We have to discuss. --Vacant0 (talk) 12:22, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the "far-right factions" phrase is definitely undue, considering that there's only one reliable source given (the Haaretz one is an opinion piece that shouldn't be used here). I don't really have a problem with "right-wing populism", although I would prefer to have more sources for it. Ezhao02 (talk) 14:01, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think we should add "right-wing populism" to the Infobox on the strength of journalistic articles, particularly if there is only a single one being referenced – that is WP:UNDUE. That really is a term that should be reserved for more radically right-wing parties. Also, my general option is that political party articles should list at the very most three ideologies in their Infoboxes. Factions and so on should be described in the article bodies, more specifically in a specific Ideology section where available.--Autospark (talk) 15:55, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  ND is not traditionally, a centre-right party. It was actually the main right-wing Greek party and the last years it transformed to a centre-right to right-wing one, but the right-wing conservative factions remain and they are the majority of the members. Also a user says that "ND has centrist factions", something that is completely wrong. It's true that the Greek prime-minister said that he is going to add centrist members at the government, but these members proved to be politicians that support economical liberalism. The prime-minister tends to use centrist phraseology, but the actions remains approximately the same as at every ND government. The government has a progressive agenda about LGBTQIA+ community and at the other social issues it has a highly conservative profile: at education, policing and labour-employees-demonstration issues. At the other side, at the economical issues the government tends to be more liberal than ever (economic liberalism = cente-right/right-wing). About "right-wing populism", maybe Kyriakos Mitsotakis has not a populist profile, but there is a large section of the party, that are actually the definition of this kind of politicians. For example, the vice-president of the party, A.Georgiades, is coming from the populist, nationalist and conservative party of LAOS and also a lot of members (including the ex prime-minister of Greece, A.Samaras) are right-wing populists. About "far-right" there was a suggestion at Greek wikipedia with some sources, finally it wasn't accepted, though there are some members that have a far-right profile (some of the populists I mentioned before, members with ultra-conservative views and even a member that belonged at the youth of a party that supported the former military dictatorship [this member is also a minister at the government]). Greek Rebel (talk) 22:51, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That needs backing up with scholarly sources otherwise it is WP:OR. The factions and history of the party, including historical ideologies, really need to be in an Ideology section. Also, note that the existing references sources for "Pro-Europeanism" in the current Infobox do not actually state that in the source text, and the reference for "Right-wing populism" is not entirely conclusive.--Autospark (talk) 15:08, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of content 

message: Leader Autospark (talk) 15:06, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: it is unclear what exactly you want changed. — xaosflux Talk 14:24, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 19 August 2021 

message: The approach used was actually much criticised with many demonstrations especially the decision to stall the employment of non-vaccinated medical personnel. Additionally Greece had a very bad survival percentage for covid patients in hospitals. So the reference in Mitsotakis' governance is at least lacking if not simply misinformation. 46.199.40.3 (talk) 03:49, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Covid-19 

message: They are in a big depth as they owe millions the past years and the amount is increasing by the year 46.199.40.3 (talk) 03:45, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debt 

message: I can't help but note that there is a problem with the article as it stands: The article is lacking any information about New Democracy's negative record of misrule and poor governance which is characterized by autocratic tendencies, on serious issues ranging from human right violations to financial corruption. There is no mention of the migrant pushbacks, financial mismanagement, escalation of endemic corruption, the attempt to cover up the Novartis scandal, the attacks to the Freedom of the press and the unresolved murders of prominent journalists, the 2022 Greek Watergate scandal (the surveillance scandal as is dubbed by the world media) and more. Shouldn't there be any adequate mention of the party's poor records considering the widespread attention it has received for that from both the world and local media? - ❖ SilentResident ❖ (talk ✉ | contribs ✎) 22:32, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: when did the party exactly attacked freedom of the press? This is an assumption deriving from subjective research which has been challenged. The "migrant pushback" is simply Turkish propaganda. Novartis scandal was invented by SYRIZA to accuse the opposition and consolidate power, making Greece something like Venezuela. SYRIZA does everything possible to destroy the reputation of the country. 2A00:23C8:9656:2601:943C:ABD5:9AC9:F810 (talk) 08:16, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No information on misrule in the 2019-2022 period? 

message: The party is considered to cover the area from the center-right to the right-wing, often considered to also be on the far-right, due to prominent politicians such as Thanos Plevris, Adonis Georgiadis, Makis Voridis and Antonis Samaras. There is no Greek party that's considered to be to the right of New Democracy, which isn't essentially universally far-right (Golden Dawn, Greek Solution, etc.). The designation should at least be "center-right to right-wing". --Antondimak (talk) 08:19, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: the lack of a moderate right-wing party is not a good argument since this probably applies to most european countries, i am not into greek politics so i don't know if center-right to the right-wing or just centre-right is the better option Braganza (talk) 12:46, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The party is generally considered to "cover" the area of the Right-Wing. It's not just the lack of a different party. --Antondimak (talk) 19:24, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Essentially Greek Solution is party that could be considered 'right wing' (although I understand why a large number of scholars see it differently). It started as an openly pro-Russian party but there's nothing really extreme on their founding declaration.  New Democracy has a number of MPs of center-left background too. Under Samaras they had a more right-wing rhetoric. Under Mitsotakis many politicians of centrist or center-left background entered, while those of far-right background have remained. If you go by the background of MPs then put the label 'Center-left to Far-right'. Apostolos Papadimitriou (talk) 17:24, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right-wing 

message: I've seen an edit war taking place over whether ND is centre-left, centrist, centre-right, right-wing, or far-right. It seems to me that ND, like many EPP members, is a mainstream centre-right party with the usual range of factions, like the CDU, the Tories, the PP, etc. Therefore, I propose that we establish a consensus that for "political position" we put "centre-right", and then add a footnote, as with Nippon Ishin no Kai, explaining the various factions and theories about ND's ideology (ie, it has been described as centrist, centre-left, and right-wing, while certain members have been connected with far-right groups). PtolemyXV (talk) 01:06, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit War over "Political Position" 

message: Hi! I noticed a conflict in the political position of the party. I think that as long as the official website of the political party says that: <<New Democracy belongs to the great political family of the center-right parties of Europe, firmly committed to the principles of freedom, democracy, social justice and prosperity.>> we should change it to center-right only and remove right-wing or others. What do you say? Fronxofficial (talk) 15:16, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Democracy is center-right only