{"id":22022,"date":"2026-09-21T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/the-law-not-politics-bars-a-comeback-for-kasidiaris\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:18:53","slug":"the-law-not-politics-bars-a-comeback-for-kasidiaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/the-law-not-politics-bars-a-comeback-for-kasidiaris\/","title":{"rendered":"The law, not politics, bars a comeback for Kasidiaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>I want to assure Kathimerini readers from the outset, in the strongest possible terms, of the following: for as long as his sentence remains in force, no modern democracy would allow a person convicted of a lengthy prison term for directing a criminal organization to stand for political office.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/opinion\/1315747\/the-law-not-politics-bars-a-comeback-for-kasidiaris\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to assure Kathimerini readers from the outset, in the strongest possible terms, of the following: for as long as his sentence remains in force, no modern democracy would allow a person convicted of a lengthy prison term for directing a criminal organization to stand for political office. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}