Jailed far-right ex-MP again denied candidacy

Ilias Kasidiaris, the former MP for the far-right Golden Dawn party, cannot stand as a candidate in the June 25 election, Greece's Supreme Court has ruled.

Kasidiaris and the party he founded, National Party-Greeks, had been banned from taking part in the previous national election, on May 21, because of a law targeting convicted Golden Dawn ex-MPs.

This time, Kasidiaris tried to circumvent the ban by presenting himself as an independent candidate and his party as a "coalition" of independents called Greeks, with the "National Party" part missing. Kasidiaris was to stand in the Athens A constituency.

But the Supreme Court section ruling on the eligibility of political parties and independent candidates decided this was a ruse and that the "coalition" of individuals was the same old banned party.

Two political parties, conservative New Democracy and the...