Recreate Greece

Founded in December 2011,^[16][17] it is led by Thanos Tzimeros^[18][19] and is self-identified as a citizen-centered political movement,^[20] with emphasis on the rebuilding of the Greek state.^[21][22]

The party participated in the May 2012 Greek legislative election shortly after being founded, receiving 2.15% of the total vote, short of the 3% threshold needed to enter Parliament.^[23][24] In the repeat elections in June, it formed an electoral alliance with Drasi, a fellow liberal party that had finished directly below them in the May election^[25] with 1.8% of the vote.^[26] Recreate Greece also approached Democratic Alliance,^[27] but the latter opted to run on the New Democracy list instead.^[28] In the 17 June 2012 elections, the combined parties garnered only 1.59%, a lower vote than either got in the elections the month before.^[29] Drasi would later merge with New Democracy, while Recreate Greece declined further, receiving 0.53% in the 2015 election and 0.74% in 2019. In 2020, Thanos Tzimeros announced a new coaliation with far-right politician Failos Kranidiotis,^[30] which was later merged with a new party formed by Greek conservative MP Constantinos Bogdanos, and named National Creation.

After the party's failure to enter parliament in May 2023 general election Thanos Tzimeros resigned from president^[31] and the coalition got dissolved.^[32]

On 15–17 January 2024, elections were taken place for the party's new president and Vaggelis Aktsalis was elected.^[33]

Originally, the party's ideology has been referred to as classical liberalism and that it used to promote neoliberal ideas of free markets and small government. Because of his involvement for over a decade, it is widely believed that the party's leader Thanos Tzimeros shapes the party's ideology.^[34] His speeches and beliefs have changed over the years, shifting the party further to the right.^[35][36] He has been described as extreme or far-right.^[9] Tzimeros has described the Greek Communist Party as dangerous and that it must be outlawed,^[37] whilst he compares it to neo-Nazism.^[38] In some cases, he even expressed controversial opinions about the Greek National Resistance being a historical crime.^[39][40] He tends to have controversial views on migration, which have been described as racist, and often proclaims that Islam is a threat.^[12][41][42]

Other notable incidents include Tzimeros' calls to overthrow the government in June 2015 which led to a criminal investigation.^[43]

Hellenic Parliament

Election	Hellenic Parliament					Rank	Government	Leader
	Votes	%	±pp	Seats won	+/−
May 2012	135,960	2.15%	New	0 / 300	New	11th	Extra-parliamentary	Thanos Tzimeros
Jun 2012[a]	98,140	1.59%	–2.36	0 / 300	0	8th	Extra-parliamentary
Jan 2015	Did not contest			0 / 300	0	—	Extra-parliamentary
Sep 2015	28,909	0.53%	–1.06	0 / 300	0	13th	Extra-parliamentary
2019	41,631	0.74%	+0.21	0 / 300	0	10th	Extra-parliamentary
May 2023[b]	48,087	0.81%	+0.07	0 / 300	0	10th	Extra-parliamentary

European Parliament

Media related to Recreate Greece at Wikimedia Commons

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