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Creation (political party)

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Creation
Δημιουργία
Dimiourgía
PresidentVaggelis Aktsalis
FounderThanos Tzimeros
Founded8 December 2011
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing to far-right[6][7][8]
National affiliationNational Creation (2022-23)
Colours  Orange
  Blue
Hellenic Parliament
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European Parliament
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Website
www.dimiourgiaxana.gr

The Creation (Greek: Δημιουργία, romanized: Dimiourgía), formerly Recreate Greece (Greek: Δημιουργία, Ξανά, romanized: Dimiourgia, Xana, pronounced [ðimiuɾˈʝia ksaˈna], lit. 'Create, again'), is a Greek right-wing[9][10] political party, which has adopted an ideology heavily focused on anti-immigration,[11] anti-Islam[12][13] and anti-communism.[14][15]

History

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Former party logo

Founded in December 2011,[16][17] it is led by Thanos Tzimeros[18][19] and is self-identified as a citizen-centered political movement,[20] with emphasis on the rebuilding of the Greek state.[21][22]

The party participated in the May 2012 Greek legislative election shortly after being founded, receiving 2.15% of the total vote, short of the 3% threshold needed to enter Parliament.[23][24] In the repeat elections in June, it formed an electoral alliance with Drasi, a fellow liberal party that had finished directly below them in the May election[25] with 1.8% of the vote.[26] Recreate Greece also approached Democratic Alliance,[27] but the latter opted to run on the New Democracy list instead.[28] In the 17 June 2012 elections, the combined parties garnered only 1.59%, a lower vote than either got in the elections the month before.[29] Drasi would later merge with New Democracy, while Recreate Greece declined further, receiving 0.53% in the 2015 election and 0.74% in 2019. In 2020, Thanos Tzimeros announced a new coalition with far-right politician Failos Kranidiotis,[30] which was later merged with a new party formed by Greek conservative MP Constantinos Bogdanos, and named National Creation.

After the party's failure to enter parliament in May 2023 general election Thanos Tzimeros resigned from president[31] and the coalition got dissolved.[32]

On 15–17 January 2024, elections were taken place for the party's new president and Vaggelis Aktsalis was elected.[33] In April 2024, the party was renamed to Creation.[34]

Ideology and leadership

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Originally, the party's ideology has been referred to as classical liberalism and that it used to promote neoliberal ideas of free markets and small government. Because of his involvement for over a decade, it is widely believed that the party's leader Thanos Tzimeros shapes the party's ideology.[35] His speeches and beliefs have changed over the years, shifting the party further to the right.[36][37] He has been described as extreme or far-right.[9] Tzimeros has described the Greek Communist Party as dangerous and that it must be outlawed,[38] whilst he compares it to neo-Nazism.[39] In some cases, he even expressed controversial opinions about the Greek National Resistance being a historical crime.[40][41] He tends to have controversial views on migration, which have been described as racist, and often proclaims that Islam is a threat.[12][42][43]

Other notable incidents include Tzimeros' calls to overthrow the government in June 2015 which led to a criminal investigation.[44]

Election results

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Hellenic Parliament

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Election Hellenic Parliament Rank Government Leader
Votes % ±pp Seats won +/−
May 2012 135,960 2.15% New
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 New 11th Extra-parliamentary Thanos Tzimeros
Jun 2012[a] 98,140 1.59% –2.36
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 Steady 0 8th Extra-parliamentary
Jan 2015 Did not contest
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 Steady 0 — Extra-parliamentary
Sep 2015 28,909 0.53% –1.06
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 Steady 0 13th Extra-parliamentary
2019 41,631 0.74% +0.21
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 Steady 0 10th Extra-parliamentary
May 2023[b] 48,087 0.81% +0.07
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 Steady 0 10th Extra-parliamentary
  1. ^ Run in coalition with Drassi and FISY.
  2. ^ Run as part of the National Creation coalition.

European Parliament

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European Parliament
Election Votes % ±pp Seats won +/− Rank Leader EP Group
2014[a] 51,749 0.91% New
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 New 13th Thanos Tzimeros −
2019 39,217 0.69% −0.22
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 Steady 18th
2024 14,024 0.35% −0.34
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 Steady 0 19th Vaggelis Aktsalis
  1. ^ Run in a joint list with Drassi.

References

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