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{{Infobox political party
| country = Greece
| native_name = {{Lang|el|Εθνική Παράταξη}}
| logo = Εθνική Παράταξις-01-01.svg
| founder = [[Stefanos Stefanopoulos]]
| foundation = 1977
| dissolved = 1981
| merged = [[New Democracy (Greece)|New Democracy]]
| ideology = [[Greek nationalism]] [[Royalism]] [[Anti-communism]]
| position = [[Right-wing]]
| colorcode = {{Party color|National Alignment}}
}}

'''National Alignment''' ('''EP''', [[Greek language|Greek]]: Εθνική Παράταξις (Ε.Π.), ''Ethniki Parataxis'') was a [[nationalist]]-[[conservatism|conservative]] [[Greece|Greek]] political party that contested only the [[1977 Greek legislative election|1977 legislative election]], winning 7% of the vote and five seats. It was founded by conservatives who split from [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]] and his [[New Democracy (Greece)|New Democracy]] party, who resented Karamanlis moving towards the center and distancing himself from hard-right elements, and alleged that Karamanlis had given too many concessions to the left, in particular by legalizing the [[Communist Party of Greece]] and overseeing the imprisonment of the leaders of the [[Greek military junta of 1967–1974|1967–1974 junta]]. The EP's leader was [[Stefanos Stefanopoulos]] (who had briefly been prime minister in 1965, during [[Apostasia of 1965|Apostasia]]), and its deputy leader was [[Spyros Theotokis]] (a former member of the [[National Radical Union]]). Although the party was not officially [[monarchism|royalist]], Theotokis was a noted royalist, giving the party somewhat of an association with the monarchist right.

The party merged into New Democracy before the [[1981 Greek legislative election|1981 election]], mollified by some concessions from [[George Rallis]], and giving as a reason its desire to avoid splitting the "anti-Marxist" front. Theotokis, by that time the EP's leader, gained a parliamentary seat in the election as a New Democracy deputy.

==Electoral results==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="9"|'''Results, 1993-1999 (year links to election page)'''
|-
! style="width: 20px"|Year
! style="width:140px"|Type of Election
! style="width: 60px"|Votes
! style="width: 20px"|%
! style="width: 20px"|Mandates
|-
! [[1977 Greek legislative election|1977]]
|style="text-align:center;"| Parliament
|style="text-align:center;"| 349,988
|style="text-align:center;"| 6.82
|style="text-align:center;"| 5
|-
|}

==References==
* {{cite book | author = Richard Clogg | title = Parties and Elections in Greece: The Search for Legitimacy | publisher = Duke University Press | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-8223-0794-4 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/amongafghans00bonn/page/183 183–184] | url = https://archive.org/details/amongafghans00bonn/page/183 }}

{{Monarchism in Greece}}

[[Category:Political parties established in 1977]]
[[Category:Monarchist parties in Greece]]
[[Category:Defunct nationalist parties in Greece]]
[[Category:1977 establishments in Greece]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1981]]
[[Category:1981 disestablishments in Greece]]

National Alignment - Revision history

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