National Alignment

National Alignment Εθνική Παράταξη
Founder	Stefanos Stefanopoulos
Founded	1977
Dissolved	1981
Merged into	New Democracy
Ideology	Nationalism Royalism Anti-communism
Political position	Right-wing
Politics of Greece Political parties Elections

National Alignment (EP, Greek: Εθνική Παράταξις (Ε.Π.), Ethniki Parataxis) was a nationalist-conservative Greek political party that contested only the 1977 legislative election, winning 7% of the vote and five seats. It was founded by conservatives who split from Konstantinos Karamanlis and his New Democracy party, who resented Karamanlis moving towards the center and distancing himself from hard-right elements, and alleged that Karamanlis had given too many concessions to the left, in particular by legalizing the Communist Party of Greece and overseeing the imprisonment of the leaders of the 1967–1974 junta. The EP's leader was Stefanos Stefanopoulos (who had briefly been prime minister in 1965, during Apostasia), and its deputy leader was Spyros Theotokis (a former member of the National Radical Union). Although the party was not officially royalist, Theotokis was a noted royalist, giving the party somewhat of an association with the monarchist right.

The party merged into New Democracy before the 1981 election, mollified by some concessions from George Rallis, and giving as a reason its desire to avoid splitting the "anti-Marxist" front. Theotokis, by that time the EP's leader, gained a parliamentary seat in the election as a New Democracy deputy.

Electoral results

Results, 1993-1999 (year links to election page)
Year	Type of Election	Votes	%	Mandates
1977	Parliament	349,988	6.82	5

References

Richard Clogg (1987). Parties and Elections in Greece: The Search for Legitimacy. Duke University Press. pp. 183–184. ISBN 0-8223-0794-4.

Monarchism in Greece

Ideology	Tradition Christian faith Family values Metaxism

Organizations	Epistratoi National Youth Organisation Organization X

Political Parties	People's Party United Opposition (Greece) Union of Royalists Freethinkers' Party Politically Independent Alignment Greek Rally Union of Populars Popular Social Party National Alignment National Hope

People	Dimitrios Gounaris Ioannis Metaxas Panagis Tsaldaris Alexandros Papagos Konstantinos Tsaldaris Georgios Grivas Georgios Rallis

Historical events	Balkan Wars National Schism Noemvriana Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) Greek referendum, 1920 Great Fire of Smyrna Greek monarchy referendum, 1935 4th of August Regime Greece in WWII Greek Civil War Greek referendum, 1946 Apostasia of 1965 King's counter-coup (1967)

Policies	Greek language question Social order

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