National Alignment (EP,

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: Εθνική Παράταξις (Ε.Π.), ''Ethniki Parataxis'') was a

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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

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and his

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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

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and overseeing the imprisonment of the leaders of the 1967–1974 junta. The EP's leader was

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(who had briefly been prime minister in 1965, during Apostasia), and its deputy leader was Spyros Theotokis (a former member of the

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). Although the party was not officially

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, 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

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, 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

References

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