Overview

• A specially assembled electoral tribunal ruled that three lawmakers were deprived of their mandates after misrepresenting party leadership and concealing Kasidiaris’s control.
• The decision reduces the 300-seat parliament to 297 members, the first time it has functioned below full capacity since the end of military rule.
• Judges concluded that although Vasilis Stigkas was presented as Spartans leader, Kasidiaris directed strategy from prison despite his criminal conviction.
• Ilias Kasidiaris, jailed for running a criminal organization as former Golden Dawn leader, has maintained influence through social media and proxy groups.
• Analysts say the ruling reinforces legal barriers against extremist leadership even as broader far-right support in Greece shows signs of growth.