Eighteen political parties and four political coalitions will take part in the Greek general election, which is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 25. The list was finalized by the country’s Supreme Court last week.

The high court ruled against the participation of three parties, a coalition of independent candidates and three individual candidates listed on party rolls.

The 18 parties are:

1) New Democracy (led by current Prime Minister Antonis Samaras),
2) SYRIZA – Radical Left Coalition (led by current main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras),
3) PASOK – Panhellenic Socialist Movement (led by current FM and former deputy PM Evangelos Venizelos),
4) Popular Association – Golden Dawn (led by Nikos Mihaloliakos, who is remanded pending trial on charges of leading a criminal organisation, known as Chryssi Avgi, in Greek),
5) KKE – Communist Party of Greece (led by Dimitris Koutsoumbas),
6) Telia – Apostolos Gletsos (led by Apostolos Gletsos, a well-known TV actor and current mayor of the central Greece town of Stylida. Telia means “full stop” in Greek)
7) OKDE – Organization of Internationalist Communist of Greece (3-member executive committee),
8) Movement of Democratic Socialists (founded in Jan. 2015 and led by former PASOK PM and foreign minister George Papandreou),
9) Independent Left Renewal, Right Renewal, PASOK Renewal, ND Renewal, No to War, Operation Granting Land Plots Party, Debt Forgiveness, Saving Lives, Pan-Agricultural Workers’ Movement of Greece (M. Tzalazidis) ,
10) KEAN – National Resistance Movement (Hippocrates Savvouras).
11) EEK -Trotskyites – Workers Revolutionary Party (Sabetai Matsas),
12) LA.OS – Popular Orthodox Rally (led by former ND deputy and MEP Giorgos Karatzaferis),
13) Union of Centrists (Vassilis Leventis),
14) ELKSI- Greek White Movement of Today’s Ideology (El. Daniilidis),
15) EDEM – Union of Democratic National Reform (3-member executive committee)
16) «ROMA» – Radical Orthodox Solidarity Front (Ag. Liakopoulos)
17) Το Potami (founded and led by former television journalist and current affairs presenter Stavros Theodorakis, “To Potami” means “the river” in Greek) and finally,
18) EL.LA.DΑ – Greek Popular Democratic Liberation Λαϊκή (C. Papanikolas, the party’s acronym translates as “Greece”).

Additionally, another four political coalitions will participate in the election, namely:

1) Anti-capitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow (ΑΝΤ.ΑR.SY.Α.) in cooperation with the Revolutionary Communist Left and the Radical Ecology and Frontline Left Alliance (a central coordinating committee and 3-member executive committee),

2) Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist) – M.L. ΚΚΕ- Election Cooperation (4-member governing committee),

3) Greens – Democratic Left (ex-MEP Nikos Chrysogelos and and one-time coalition junior party leader Fotis Kouvelis),

4) Independent Greeks National Patriotic Alliance, Farm- Stockbreeding Party of Greece, Blank (vote), Fire-Burned, Christian-Democrat Party of Greece, Independent Greeks Party (the latter is led by former