NEWS

Close PM associate rules out Golden Dawn overture

A day after a veteran New Democracy MP urged his party to cooperate with the far-right Golden Dawn party, a close aid to the prime minister said the idea was a non-starter.

“New Democracy will never, ever cooperate with those neo-Nazis,” Chrysanthos Lazaridis, a party hard-liner, said in an interview with Mega TV on Tuesday.

On Monday, Vyron Polydoras, a former minister and parliamentary speaker, suggested ND should cooperate with Golden Dawn along with other parties as part of a “broader consensus” to defend the nation. He did not clarify his statement.

Polydoras’s remarks prompted an uncomfortable response from ND, with a spokesperson describing Polydoras’s comments as “strange.”

Meanwhile on Monday Golden Dawn issued a statement saying that it “spits on all corrupt pseudo-politicians” and predicting that the next government would be a coalition between ND and leftist opposition SYRIZA.

A recent poll put ND on 22 percent, followed by SYRIZA on 20.8 percent. Golden Dawn party was third on 9.1 percent, followed by coalition partners PASOK on 6.1 percent.

Subscribe to our Newsletters

Enter your information below to receive our weekly newsletters with the latest insights, opinion pieces and current events straight to your inbox.

By signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.