nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230616-111141-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230616s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230616-111141-0 doi eng 342 23 Marketou, Afroditi Author aut The Brave New World of Areios Pagos - Exploring the Grounds of Greek Supreme Judges’ Turn to Militant Democracy Marketou, Afroditi Verfassungsblog 2023-06-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier These are exciting times for Greek constitutionalists. In its capacity as electoral judge, the first section of the Greek Supreme Civil and Criminal Court (Areios Pagos) recently banned the participation of the neo-Nazi Hellenes National Party in the elections of 21 May. In order to accept the constitutionality of the legislative ban on Hellenes National Party, Areios Pagos had to provide not only a new interpretation of Greek constitutional provisions, but also a whole new vision of democracy, of the Greek and the European Constitution and of Greek constitutional politics. The brave new world of Areios Pagos is part of a new constitutionalist approach that is likely to affect the application of constitutional provisions in future cases, as the more recent decision concerning the elections of 25 June shows. CC BY-SA 4.0 Areios Pagos Constitutional Resilience democracy Greece Militant Democracy Neonazi Party Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-brave-new-world-of-areios-pagos/ raw object