National Political Union (Greece)

Not to be confused with the Greek political alliance, 1946-1940.

National Political Union Εθνική Πολιτική Ένωσις Ethniki Politiki Enosis
Founder	Georgios Papadopoulos
Founded	1984
Dissolved	1996
Merged into	Golden Dawn
Ideology	Anti-communism Greek nationalism Militarism Ultranationalism
Political position	Far-right
European Parliament group	European Right (1984–1989)
Politics of Greece Political parties Elections

The National Political Union, better known as EPEN (Greek: Εθνική Πολιτική Ένωσις, or Ethniki Politiki Enosis, EΠΕΝ) was a Greek far-right political party. The party was founded on January 30, 1984 by jailed former junta leader Georgios Papadopoulos.^[1] It participated (unsuccessfully) in the 1985 general election. In the 1984 elections to the European Parliament, the party polled 2.3% of the vote, giving it one of the 24 seats held by Greece.

Members of EPEN

Well-known members of EPEN were:

Georgios Papadopoulos
Makis Voridis
Chrysanthos Dimitriadis
Spyros Zournatzis
Nikolaos Michaloliakos

Electoral results

Results 1996-2000 (year links to election page)
Year	Type of Election	Votes	%	Mandates
1984	European Parliament	136,642	2.29%	1
1985	Parliament	37,965	0.6%	0
June 1989	Parliament	21,149	0.3%	0
1989	European	75,877	1.16%	0
1993	Parliament	9,469	0.14%	0
1996	Parliament	16,501	0.24%	0

References

↑ "Jailed Greek Dictator Sponsors Rightist Party", New York Times, 30 January 1984.

Greek nationalism

Ideology	Modern Greek Enlightenment Megali Idea Hellenization Venizelism Metaxism Enosis

Organizations	Filiki Eteria Ethniki Etaireia Hellenic Macedonian Committee National Youth Organisation EOKA EOKA B

Political Parties	Nationalist Party Freethinkers' Party Politically Independent Alignment Greek Rally National Party of Greece 4th of August Party National Alignment Party of Hellenism National Political Union Hellenic Front Front Line Patriotic Alliance National Front (Greece) Popular Orthodox Rally Golden Dawn National Unity Association

People	Adamantios Korais Rigas Feraios Alexander Ypsilantis Athanasios Diakos Dionysios Solomos Ioannis Kolettis Constantine Paparrigopoulos Alexandros Koumoundouros Theodoros Deligiannis Kostis Palamas Pavlos Melas Ion Dragoumis Alexandros Papanastasiou Ioannis Metaxas Alexandros Papagos Napoleon Zervas Georgios Grivas Georgios Papadopoulos Dimitrios Ioannidis

Historical events	Greco-Persian Wars Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty Greek War of Independence Cretan Revolt (1866–69) Greco-Turkish War (1897) Macedonian Struggle Balkan Wars Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus National Schism Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) 4th of August Regime Greek Resistance Cypriot intercommunal violence Greek military junta of 1967–74 1974 Cypriot coup d'état 1990 Komotini events

Policies	Geographical name changes Greek language question Macedonia naming dispute

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