Despite the doubts and the compromise
scenarios generated by recent release on bail of three of the most prominent members of Golden
Dawn, it could be that the money-laundering charge is the more powerful tool to
dissuade the more convinced among Golden Dawn’s circumstantial voters: violence
against offenders or alleged offenders is often justified by those defended
against “lawless illegal immigrants”. But equally as or even more than the
evident involvement in the fatal stabbing of a white Greek anti-Dawn rapper,
the betrayal of the trust placed with the “defenders” may be difficult to
forgive: money-laundering together with the accusations for other forms of protection,
elective discrimination against immigrants and lack of transparency in the origin
of the financial resources may help some of the recent Golden Dawn voters to
look elsewhere for a party to represent them against the three-year long ordeal
they have been experiencing in the lack of efficient social policy. It could be
the beginning of a reform of the political landscape with an element of
surprise: the points lost by the Golden Dawn after Fyssas’ death in the polls in
the first few days after the assassination seem to have been transferred to KKE
and DHMAR, not to the government or the major opposition party. This can be a
pivotal moment and the perspective recipient parties could be expected to live
up to unusually high expectations.
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