ATHENS – Hoping to reach a threshold of at least 3 percent in 2023 Greek elections to get into Parliament, six small political parties and a movement joined hands to become the Prasino + Mov alliance.
It means Green and Purple and includes parties outside the mainstream, the Ecologists Gree, Greens, Pirates Party, Green-Solidarity Party, Party for Animals, Volt and the ecofeminist movement Kyklos.
Prasino + Mov includes two former Members of the European Parliament who were at the presentation of the merge, Nikos Chryssogelos and Michalis Tremopoulos, both former ecologist EU lawmakers. MEPs.
“The Prasino + Mov alliance aims both to gain a seat in Parliament and to contribute to a viable present and future for alll, without leaving young people out. We want to contribute to reducing our debt to the next generations and to the planet,” Chryssogelos said, reported the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency ANA-MPA of the decision.
Even if the manage to gain a seat – or a few – the new party would have no say in what happens in the 300-member body now controlled by the majority New Democracy, with small blocs of rivals unable to pass or block legislation.