A member of the extreme right Golden Dawn party holds a flag bearing their party’s logo during an election campaign rally in Athens April 21, 2012. In 2009, the group took just 0.23 percent of the vote, this time; polls show it taking between 4.1 and 5.7 percent. Much of that has come at the expense of the far-right LAOS party, whose ratings plummeted after it joined technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’ pro-bailout coalition last year. The rise of Golden Dawn – which denies critics’ labels as neo-Nazi – is all the more intriguing in a country proud of its World War II resistance against Nazi Germany and where anti-German sentiment still runs high over austerity measures demanded by Berlin and other lenders. Picture taken April 21, 2012. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (GREECE – Tags: TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ELECTIONS POLITICS)
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