Pro, Anti or Non-Russian? Radical Right Parties in the Greek Parliament during the Crises

The repeated emergent crises the European Union has experienced since 2009 have highlighted the ideological gap between the EU and the pro-Russian positions most of the far-right parties have taken. Such a situation experienced Greece after the 2012 Greek electoral earthquake, as a populist radical right party (Independent Greeks) and a neo-nazi party (Golden Dawn) entered the parliament. Although both parties ended their parliamentary presence in the 2019 national elections, a new populist radical right party entered the parliament, the Greek Solution. Both the abovementioned parties are known for their pro-religious and pro-Russian ties while in the political field. Nevertheless, their discourse in the parliamentary sessions has not been examined systematically. Acknowledging the significance of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, my research questions: 'How have the Greek radical right parties spoken during the Parliamentary sessions and regarding the Russian involvement in the Greek politics?' Regarding the examined period, I will draw material from the sessions a month before and after the July 2015 referendum and from 20th February until the end of March 2022. My methodology will be the constructivist version of the grounded theory, while I will process my data with the MAXQDA software.