Spartans (Greek political party)
political party in Greece
Spartans (Greek: Σπαρτιάτες, romanized: Spartiátes) is a far-right political party in Greece, founded in 2017 by Vasilis Stigkas. It has strong connections with the neo-nazi party and criminal organization Golden Dawn.
On 12 June 2025, the party lost its parliamentary presence after the Special High Court expelled three of the party's five MPs for misleading voters.
History
In the late 1980s, Vasilis Stigkas first joined New Democracy for a few years at the time when Konstantinos Mitsotakis was Prime Minister. Unsatisfied with the party, he followed then Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras into his new Political Spring party, after the latter was dismissed from his position over his stance on the Macedonia naming dispute.
In the early 2000s, Stigkas joined the LAOS party of Georgios Karatzaferis. He left after the party's support for the memorandum in 2012 while it participated in the coalition government of Lucas Papademos.
He created the Spartans party in 2017, while participating in political programs on the YouTube channel of Konstantinos Plevris and Tasos Simigdalas. During that time, he interviewed different political personalities such as leftist Panagiotis Lafazanis, centrist Vasilis Leventis and Golden Dawner Ioannis Lagos.
For the European parliamentary election of May 2019, an electoral alliance was announced with the party Union of Centrists of Vasilis Leventis.
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