Fractionalization of political spectrum

Former ministers, party leaders, glitterati, academics and everyday folk are trying their hand at politics, believing that traditional political forces have had their day. Others just hope for their political survival and their re-election, while others are simply lashing out at political foes. There are even those that earnestly believe that they can impact positively on the country's tattered political ethos.

However, polls show that only National Dawn, spawned by Golden Dawn, Stavros Theodarakis' The River, of the newly hatched movements claim percentages worth noting, the rest hold hope for some future coalition, while some have been formed just to create a sensation.

However many parties have changed names, or taken on temporary guises, like SYRIZA, PASOK, and DIMAR, in the run up to elections, while it is within the broader center-left spectrum that most of these developments are taking place.

Despite this nominal renewal, political personnel remain the same worn and tainted figures that the Greek public is used to, and the background remains fluid as these figures ally and disengage at rapid rates, while society has reached its nerve racking breaking point. The whole political dialogue is exhausted at the fringes of pro- or anti-memorandum rhetoric, abandoning, and thus confusingly blurring ideological and programmatic platforms, and bewildering citizens.

The main new political parties are:

Left and Center-Left:

The River – Stavros Theodorakis

Agreement for the New Greece – Andreas Loverdos
Dynamic Greece – Ilias Mosialos
Five Star Drachma – Theodors Katsanevas
Society First – Paris Moutsinas, Odysseas Voudouris
Initiative of the 58 – Yannis Voulgaris
Socialist Party – Stefanos Tzoumakas
Plan B' – Alekos Alavanos
Elia/Democratic Movement – formerly PASOK, Evangelos Venizelos
DIMAR/Democratic Coalition – formerly DIMAR, Fotis Kouvelis

Conservative Right and Center Right:

National Dawn – formerly Golden Dawn
Greek European Citizens – Yorgos Chatzimarkakis
Union for the Motherland and Country – Vyron Polydoras
New Day – Christos Zois
Christian Democratic Party of Greece – Nikos Nikolopoulos
New Party – Party of Academics
New Line – Giorgos Anagnostopoulos