Antarsya

A total of 32 parties, coalitions and independents have been given the green light to contest the June 25 general election, following a decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday evening.

The names of the electoral entities are (in alphabetical order):

Tensions flared in the center of Athens on Friday as members of the anti-capitalist ANTARSYA party tried to enter the vicinity of Parliament during a protest against new reforms, including restrictions on the right to strike.

Police responded with teargas.

Parliament is set to approve the measures on January 15 in return for bailout funds.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos recently rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier, he met with businesspeople, fund managers and representatives of the financial markets, and spoke at the Invest in Greece Capital Link Forum.

Members of the far leftist party ‘ANTARSYA’ (Left Anti-capitalist Collaboration for Subversion) invaded the offices of the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) on Monday demanding a prolonged media strike by the members of the union, who were in the middle of a board meeting on the strike under way.

The first reports of street violence on Friday afternoon cited a group of 500 so-called “anti-state” activists attacking riot police with clubs and other objects near the “no” rally — incidents, however, that have occurred repeatedly in the past in central Athens.

Two Golden Dawn supporters on Thursday were found guilty of bodily harm by a court in Serres, northeastern Greece, in an attack against a member of anti-capitalist ANTARSYA party carried out in October 2012. Both defendants were sentenced to 12-month prison sentences, suspended for three years.

One of the defendants was former Serres Golden Dawn deputy Nikitas Siois.

Self-styled anti-state rioters caused serious damage to storefronts and cars on the sidelines of a rally by a far-left anti-capitalist grouping — the tiny out-of-Parliament Antarsya — in downtown Athens to protest a more recent extension agreement with EU creditors.

A 52-year-old candidate running on the Golden Dawn ticket in the January 25 polls and a 22-year-old member of the far-right party faced illegal weapons charges on Monday after a police patrol found an unlicensed hunting rifle, a retractable baton and a can of pepper spray in the car they were traveling in.