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Greece: Golden Dawn Will Rebound

Sep 26, 2013 | 10:29 GMT

Greece: Golden Dawn Will Rebound
The Golden Dawn party demonstrate in front of the parliament building in Athens in May.

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Summary

The popularity of Greece's Golden Dawn, a far-right political party, has fallen slightly since one of its supporters allegedly murdered an anti-fascist musician on Sept. 18, and although Athens would like to curb the group's influence further, it will be too preoccupied with Greece's economic problems to manage fringe movements adequately. Thus there is still some room for Golden Dawn and similar parties to regain any support they may have lost.

Though the group's popularity has waned, the social and economic conditions that led to the group's rise have not changed....

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