It is supposedly connected by an invisible thread. Victory move and parliamentary candidates parachurch organizations, monasteriesmovements against vaccinations and abortionsas well as business interests. The foregoing follows from information, but mainly from information that the leaders of the movement themselves released at an unexpected time. The parliamentary candidate for the Peloponnese region was in January 2019 the keynote speaker at a seminar called “Let Me Live”.

It is a controversial anti-abortion campaign that sparked a wave of backlash and forced the then transport minister Kostas Karamanlis to intervene to have her posters removed from subway stations. The campaign poster hit the front page of a sports newspaper at the same time. This is the same paper Elections on Sunday posted on its website as a central topic the complaint of the “Niki” movement about the lack of party ballots in many constituencies in Attica.

There are at least three candidates among the candidates who led the mobilization against compulsory vaccination during the coronavirus outbreak. In September 2021, a candidate for the prefecture of Northern Greece openly described the experience of the disease, concluding: “I overcame it without vaccination, with two major diseases and two autoimmune ones. The COVID monster has been defeated, the worst thing is the monster of fear, lies, irrationality.”

Two more MP candidates from Nika appear to have taken the lead in suspending the mobilization of medical workers. In a YouTube video, one of them, who is also a union representative for the public hospital workers in Attica, says: “They want to create subjugation with this drug. They poisoned the youth.”

The lists of candidates in recent elections also feature individuals who have spearheaded the movement against the new identity cards and citizenship cards. A typical example is the candidate from the Northern Sector, who is one of the first to sign a resolution entitled “Assembly of Orthodox clergy and laity in the face of an asymmetric threat to our God-given freedom.” He collected more than 5,000 signatures asking him not to receive an electronic ID and personal number. The opinion against the citizen’s card is also publicly expressed by the head of the consumer rights protection institute, participating in the voting for the victory. He even seems to embrace the eccentric philosophy of transhumanism.

“The Great Reboot”

The great reset theory was apparently embraced by the party’s MP candidate when speaking at Nicky’s public event in early February. “There is a big reset going on but no one is being notified as people are already having three days of Halloween,” he said pointedly. Conspiracy theories surrounding the Great Reset initiative, an online meeting organized by the World Economic Forum amid COVID-19, have been picked up by far-right circles, including Qanon, whose members invade the capitol from USA after his defeat Donald Trump in the presidential elections.

Nicky’s ballots single out two more candidates who are said to be closely associated with a well-known shipping businessman who aroused not only the public but also the judiciary’s concern many years ago. The name of one of them is mentioned in a publication about the burning of a luxury jeep in the northern suburbs of Attica in 2015. The vehicle allegedly, according to the publication, belonged to the shipowner and was used by his close associate and current candidate for Niki. In addition, the second partner of the same businessman, a ship owner, also participates in party ballots.

Some reports say that he is acting as a legal adviser, although they add that he does not have a law degree. Other news sources add that he is pro-Russian and maintains close ties to individuals in Russia. But there is information about other party members who maintain contacts with monks or even abbots of the holy monasteries of Mount Athos, traditionally closely associated with Russia. For example, the monasteries of Agios Panteleimonos, Philotheos and Vatopedi.

Some reports suggest that the Nike party is affiliated with the religious organization Enomeni Romiosini, which has over 60 branches throughout Greece and over 10 abroad. The organization in question was allegedly created by an elder of Agios Oros, who is said to have even given his consent to the creation of “Niki”. The elder is known as the enlightened successor of St. Paisios, and also as the guru of the anti-vaccinators of Athos.