Golden Dawn later lost all of its remaining seats in the Greek Parliament in the 2019 Greek legislative election. Following an investigation into the 2013 murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a self-identified member, Michaloliakos and several other Golden Dawn MPs and members were arrested and held in pre-trial detention on suspicion of forming a criminal organization. In this context, Golden Dawn had its origins in the movement that worked towards a return to right-wing military dictatorship in Greece. Nikolaos Michaloliakos began the foundations of what would become Golden Dawn in 1980, when he published the first issue of the right-wing, pro-military junta journal by the name Chrysi Avgi.
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The criminal trial against the leaders, frequently described as the largest Nazi trial since the Nuremberg trials, lasted more than five years. Its support since plunged, and it failed to enter parliament in the 2019 election. Golden Dawn rose to prominence during Greece's financial crisis of 2009, becoming the third most popular party in the Greek parliament in the January 2015 election. The Popular Association – Golden Dawn ( Greek: Λαϊκός Σύνδεσμος – Χρυσή Αυγή, romanized: Laïkós Sýndesmos – Chrysí Avgí), usually shortened to Golden Dawn ( Greek: Χρυσή Αυγή, romanized: Chrysí Avgí, pronounced ), is a far-right neo-Nazi ultranationalist criminal organization and former political party in Greece.
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