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Independent Greeks Ανεξάρτητοι Έλληνες
File:IndependentGreeks.jpg
Leader	Panos Kammenos
Secretary-General	Ioannis Moiras
Spokesperson	Terens Kouik
Founded	24 February 2012 (2012-02-24)
Split from	New Democracy
Headquarters	196, Syngrou Ave. 176 71 Athens
Ideology	Greek nationalism National conservatism Conservatism Populism Soft Euroscepticism
Political position	Right-wing, Radical Right
European Parliament group	European Conservatives and Reformists
Colours	Blue, Red
Slogan	We are Many We are Independent We are Greeks
Parliament	12 / 300
European Parliament	1 / 21
Regions	109 / 703
Website
http://anexartitoiellines.gr
Politics of Greece Political parties Elections

The Independent Greeks (Template:Lang-el, Anexartitoi Ellines) are a Greek rightist anti-austerity political party with representation in the Hellenic Parliament.

Foundation

The party was created by Panos Kammenos, a former MP for the conservative New Democracy party on 24 February 2012. Kammenos had been expelled from the New Democracy parliamentary group after voting against Lucas Papademos' coalition government in a vote of confidence. The founding declaration was presented on March 11.

The party has been joined by ten former New Democracy deputies, namely Elena Koundoura, el, el, el, Spyros Galinos, el, el, Panagiotis Melas and el

The minor left-wing anti-bailout Panhellenic Citizen Chariot party also reached an election cooperation agreement with the Independent Greeks on 17 April 2012.

Policies

Independent Greeks claim not to have any links with New Democracy. In terms of society, they stand in opposition to immigration and multiculturalism, supporting the banning of squats and the development of a Christian Orthodox oriented education system. Economically, the party is focused on the rejection of the loan agreement between Greece, the EU and the IMF. Kammenos calls for a committee standing above political parties and endowed with emergency powers and authorities to clear up the events that led into Greece's economic crisis. He proclaimed a "national awakening and uprising", and supposed that Greece had fallen victim to an "international conspiracy".

The party campaigns for lifting the immunity of ministers, parliamentarians, and officials against prosecution and to make accountable those who bear the blame for the crisis. It calls for the protection of national sovereignty, for German war reparations (for the invasion and occupation of Greece in the Second World War), for cancelling the memorandum which it deems illegal, and for building Greece anew.

The party has announced that they will start working so as to create a patriotic Democratic Front, the aim of which would be to save "Greece from the neo-liberal avalanche."

Representation

Before the election in May 2012, the party had 11 MPs, in the pre 2012 parliament – 10 defectors from New Democracy and one from PASOK.

The party gained 33 MPs in the parliamentary election in May. In the snap election in June of the same year, their number of representatives declined to 20.