The list is official, 14 political parties were banned from participating in the elections, mostly right of center parties and ND splinters.
There is speculation in the press that more parties will be banned depending on the results of the 1st election in order to ensure that Mitsotakis has a majority after the 2nd elections.
Velopoulos has called for voters of the banned parties to support him as he is only one of the 3 right of center parties that haven't been banned yet, the other is the Tsimeros party, and a party of a ex-senior Judge.
Are they all (rightly or wrongly) perceived as extremist parties or are there mainstream parties the government simply didn’t want siphoning off votes?
