The mainstream right-wing party in Greece, New Democracy (Néa Dhimokratía – ND) was founded in 1974, right after the 7-years-long Colonels’ Dictatorship (“The Junta”) by Konstantinos Karamanlis. The party has formed five governments from 1974 to present.

While most of ND leaders have declared that the party belongs to the centre-right or liberal-conservative part of the political spectrum, being the flagship of the Greek right-wing politics, the party has been a home to some politicians that came in from the far-right, as well as a platform for various figures of the far-right who then went on to make their own careers.