Spartiates

With 267 votes in favor, 15 votes against, and 5 abstentions the Greek MPs suspended state funding

The Ethics Committee of Parliament has recommended suspending state funding for the Spartiates party. 

The purpose of the regulation is to prevent the state funding given to political parties from being used to support criminal activities.

Since the elections, almost two dozen members of the Greek parliament have left or been removed from the parties they were elected with.

In September, the Spartiates political party received €788,067.18 in state funding, despite being barred from running in the European elections.

For the first time since 1974, the judiciary has stepped in to ban a parliamentary party from taking part in an election. The ban applies to the Spartans party and didn’t come as a surprise—not even to those it angered. Because, for a decade now, and for the first time since the restoration of democracy […]

Imprisoned Golden Dawn lieutenant also charged in the Spartiates case

Judicial probe underway focuses on Spartiates party's ties with jailed one-time GD top cadre Ilias Kasidiaris ahead of another election