Voice of Reason

Voice of Reason (Greek: Φωνή Λογικής, romanized: Foní Logikís) is a political party in Greece, founded in 2023 by Afroditi Latinopoulou. It remains outside the Hellenic Parliament, where parties must clear a 3 percent threshold, and since the 2024 European Parliament election it has held one seat in the European Parliament. Kathimerini has called the party populist-nationalist, and Politico has called Latinopoulou a far-right MEP; she sits in the Patriots for Europe group.

Latinopoulou, a former candidate of New Democracy, became deputy president of Konstantinos Bogdanos's Patriotic Force for Change, commonly known as Patrida, after he founded that party in September 2022. Bogdanos later expelled her, and she formed a separate list, Patrida–Afroditi Latinopoulou. On 28 April 2023 the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece unanimously upheld Bogdanos's complaint and ruled that her party could not use that name in the May legislative election. On 24 May 2023 she announced that the party would contest the 25 June election as Voice of Reason. After the vote, the party said it had won about 0.5 percent and had finished tenth, outside the eight parties seated in parliament.

In Greece's part of the 2024 European election, the European Parliament's published results recorded 3.04 percent for Foní Logikís and named Latinopoulou as the party's member of Patriots for Europe. In the same results, Greek Solution took 9.30 percent and two seats in the European Conservatives and Reformists, and Niki took 4.37 percent and one non-attached seat.

Politico has reported that the party presents itself through the slogan "Fatherland, Religion, Family," and that Latinopoulou's platform is anti-abortion and anti-immigration, including a proposal to bar LGBTQ+ people from jobs in education, while she identifies her politics with those of Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni. In a December 2025 television interview she called for migrants to be held on uninhabited islands and for the death penalty to be reconsidered.

Greek law requires a party to gather at least 200 signatures from citizens with the right to vote. In November 2025 Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis told parliament that a prosecutor was reviewing a case file, opened in January 2025, on whether signatures on Voice of Reason's founding declaration were genuine. A party official described the allegations to Politico as a political attack. On 15 September 2026 the European Parliament voted to lift Latinopoulou's immunity so the Greek case could proceed; she remained an MEP, and she had written to Parliament's president, Roberta Metsola, in January 2026 asking for the waiver and stating that a court hearing would establish her innocence.

History

Before the party

Afroditi Latinopoulou, a Thessaloniki lawyer and former national junior tennis champion born in 1991, with family origins in Evros, came into party politics through New Democracy. She had stopped competing after a cold-related injury, worked for a time as a tennis coach, and completed a law degree, which she entered without using the bonus points available to champion athletes. In May 2019 the party confirmed her on its list for the Thessaloniki A constituency in the 7 July election, presenting her as part of the newer intake on that ticket. Kyriakos Mitsotakis included her on the 2019 lists among candidates promoted after 2016. She was not elected to the Hellenic Parliament.

The public break with New Democracy came in June 2022. After Latinopoulou commented on photographs of television presenter Danae Barka and wrote of “wrong health models” in what she called “woke culture,” party sources said she held no office in the party, locally or nationally, and would not be a candidate at the next national election. She later said she had not been formally expelled and had left on her own.

On 4 August 2022 she announced that she would stand with Konstantinos Bogdanos in the National Creation alliance, citing shared references to homeland, religion and family. The alignment lasted days. On 10 August, Thanos Tzimeros and Failos Kranidiotis removed Bogdanos, then the alliance’s only MP, citing arrogance and lack of measure; contemporary reporting treated his cooperation with Latinopoulou as the occasion. Bogdanos, a former New Democracy MP expelled from that party in October 2021 after telling parliament that communists were a greater threat to Greece than Turkey, then founded Patriotic Force for Change (Greek: Πατριωτική Δύναμη Αλλαγής), known by the acronym PATRIDA, and named Latinopoulou vice-president. He announced the party on 26 September 2022 and said it would have a voice in parliament through him as an independent.

That partnership ended on 14 March 2023. PATRIDA’s political council voted 9–1 to accept an electoral cooperation with Prodromos Emfietzoglou’s Patriotic Union, with Bogdanos to become vice-president of the joint formation. Latinopoulou rejected the move in a public comment, writing that there had been no genuine council decision. The party said she did not accept its statutory procedures and expelled her.

Founding and the 2023 elections

On 23 March 2023 Latinopoulou announced on Instagram a party of her own under the name Patrida (Πατρίδα). It sought to contest the 21 May parliamentary election as Patrida–Afroditi Latinopoulou. On 28 April the plenary of the A1 political section of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece unanimously excluded it, upholding Bogdanos’s complaint that the name overlapped with Patriotic Force for Change, already commonly known as Patrida. The same session rejected other naming appeals, including Bogdanos’s challenge to National Creation; the previous day the court had also kept the Bogdanos–Emfietzoglou Patriotic Union off the May ballot after a separate name complaint.

Latinopoulou then said the party would change its name and emblem and contest the repeat election of 25 June as Voice of Reason (Φωνή Λογικής). It received 0.43% and won no seats.

From the 2024 breakthrough to the first congress

In the June 2024 election to the European Parliament, Voice of Reason won 3.04% of the vote, or 120,755 ballots, and one of Greece’s seats, taken by Latinopoulou—about seven times its June 2023 share. She took her place in the Patriots for Europe group, alongside members from the parties of Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán.

The party’s first congress met on Saturday 13 December 2025 at the President Hotel in Athens. Delegates unanimously elected Latinopoulou president, adopted a statute and a statement of positions and principles, and chose a 70-member central committee, with the tally certified by the congress electoral committee. In her address she said the party was not yet a year and a half old, cited a poll placing it at 6.5%—a figure she said understated its support—and set conditions for future candidates, including a clean criminal record, completed military service for men, and a payment toward the election deposit. She also dismissed allegations about the 200 signatures required to found a party, arguing that a formation which had stood in an election within about two months could not have lacked them; those proceedings are separate from the congress itself.

Ideology and policy

Journalists and political scientists place Voice of Reason on the populist far right, a description its president, Afroditi Latinopoulou, rejects. In a chapter for the European Center for Populism Studies, Sofia Vasilopoulou of King’s College London groups the party with Greek Solution and Victory (Niki) as relatively new far-right populist parties, and writes that its 2024 European campaign stressed Islam and what it calls “woke culture,” rather than prices or religion and family. Politico describes her as a far-right member of the European Parliament with an anti-immigration and anti-abortion platform, identifying with Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni. Kathimerini’s English edition uses the same far-right label and, in February 2025, included her among parties to the right of New Democracy that took up themes associated with the return of Donald Trump. In June 2024 she told Naftemporiki that the party held to “Fatherland, Religion, Family,” wanted an economically liberal Greece, expressed the centre-right, and “in no case” represented “an extreme.”

Immigration, security and national identity

Vasilopoulou writes that the party calls itself a contemporary patriotic movement for Greek identity—“Homeland, religion, family”—addressing the “ordinary Greek” against a corrupt establishment. In that account its ideology draws on the “Great Replacement” theory, treating globalization, atheism, Muslim immigration and a rights discourse as forces replacing Greek culture and Christianity, and it warns of the “Islamization of Greece and Europe.” The policies she attributes to it are deportation of irregular migrants, closed borders, and reception centres moved outside Greece. Kathimerini reported that, on Skai in December 2025, Latinopoulou called for a “sweep” of neighbourhoods so that “only Greeks should reside in them,” and said migrants should be confined to uninhabited islands such as Gyaros and Makronisos, both former places of political exile. She accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of building “a huge state” for “cronies, associates, illegal immigrants, criminals and gypsies,” and of maintaining “five cartels,” including in energy and supermarkets; the paper noted that she offered no evidence.

On MEGA in December 2024, as reported by To Vima, she called irregular entry a problem of security and public money. She urged chemical or surgical castration for child sexual abuse, a view she said dated from her time in New Democracy, and a “three strikes” law, arguing that life sentences were not served as such for lack of prisons. She said no irregular migrant, and no Romani person who had raped or killed, should be at liberty, asserted that most prisoners were Roma and that 75 percent were foreign, and said “fanatical Islamists” could not live in Western countries that claim to respect women, unlike other Muslims. Kathimerini’s February 2025 analysis reports that she speaks of a plan to replace Greece’s population and calls for a return to Orthodox tradition. Quoted there, Vassiliki Georgiadou of Panteion University says not every far-right party shares “great replacement” theory, while Georgios Samaras of King’s College London says Latinopoulou “threatens migrants with the death penalty” and relies on conspiracy theories about population shrinkage rather than a developed policy. In the December 2025 interview she separately called for revisiting the death penalty where “we are talking about the lives of children.”

Family, religion and social policy

Politico sums the party up as “a modern patriotic movement dedicated to preserving Greek identity and values,” under “Fatherland, Religion, Family.” Vasilopoulou writes that it is “staunchly against the acceptance of non-heterosexual sexual orientations, same-sex marriage and adoption rights,” and that it prioritizes demographic growth through measures for what it calls the “Greek” family. Politico also reports that she wants LGBTQ+ people barred from working in education. Kathimerini notes that she often speaks of a traditional family that “can only comprise a father, a mother and children,” and quotes Georgiadou on far-right parties promoting women leaders without changing their view of women in the family or of demography. On MEGA she refused cooperation with Mitsotakis, calling him an unrepentant socialist who wants a multicultural society and “does not respect the Greek nuclear family.”

The party’s own text calls the nuclear family the cell of Greek society and rejects migration and citizenship as the answer to low fertility, warning that Greeks could become a minority in Greece. Measures it lists include allowances only where at least one parent is a Greek citizen; €5,000 per child, repayable if the child misses compulsory school; a 10 percent cut in family tax per child; lifetime tax exemption for mothers of four or more children; and a €30,000 low-interest loan at the first child, reduced or written off as further children are born.

Economy, the state and Europe

She told Naftemporiki she wanted “an economically liberal Greece with far fewer taxes and many more incentives for new investment,” and a politics that stood with the small self-employed person, shopkeeper and farmer. The European Union, she said, had “for years taken the wrong road”; invoking Robert Schuman, she wanted a Europe of nations built gradually—economically strong and protective of its borders—not “a Europe of illegal migrants,” of “the Brussels elites,” or of “rights activists” serving what she called sick minorities, “such as the LGBT leadership.” Before the election she said the closest fit appeared to be Meloni’s European Conservatives and Reformists. Vasilopoulou records the later affiliation as Patriots for Europe, with “Brussels” cast as pro-globalization and aligned with global finance. At a Patriots for Europe event in Madrid in February 2025, Kathimerini reported, she said: “The time has come to take back our homelands, to make Europe great again.”

In Parliament she called for a return to lignite and plastic straws, which Kathimerini linked to early signals from the Trump administration, and asked whether the right had “imposed green energy at the expense of industry and destroyed the EU’s competitiveness.” On the Greek state she told MEGA that nothing public is free, that indirect taxes are not matched by services, and that ministries, political appointees and what she called a “feast” of funding for private-law bodies and NGOs should be cut, citing a Migration Ministry authorization she put at €226 million. Her tax proposals, as reported there, were a flat 15 percent rate with living expenses deductible, lower contributions, abolition of those grants, rationalization of privileged pensions which she priced at €1 billion, an end to sinecures and to municipal funding of private-law entities which she put at another €1 billion, and a halving of corporate tax against revenue she put at about €5 billion—“hands off the private sector, hands off the entrepreneurs.”

Organization

Leadership and congress

Afroditi Latinopoulou is the party's founder and president. In September 2024 she named Konstantinos Kollias secretary after he left New Democracy. Her announcement called him a self-made businessman and president of the commercial section of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry; press reports identified him as a former organizational secretary of New Democracy from the period of Antonis Samaras, and as a figure associated with Samaras's circle.

The party scheduled its first congress for 13 December 2025 at the President Hotel in Athens: morning accreditation, speeches, approval of the statute, election of the president, a ballot for the central committee, and a closing address by the president. Accounts published on 15 December said the congress had unanimously elected Latinopoulou president, adopted the statute and a text of Positions and Principles, and accepted the electoral committee's certification of 70 central-committee members. The Rhodian newspaper Dimokratiki, reproducing the organizing committee's figures, reported that the committee's work took place at the President Hotel and that 715 delegates were accredited, of whom 296 voted: 284 ballots were valid, 12 invalid and none blank.

In the address reported by Proto Thema, Latinopoulou set conditions for a future candidacy: a clean criminal record; completed military service for men; and, for those who reached the final stage, a contribution of €1,000 for men and €500 for women toward the election deposit. She barred campaign offices and social-media promotion before the list was announced, said sector heads would not be candidates, asked members to disagree civilly online, and said membership would be suspended while a complaint was examined. On 27 August 2026 Banking News reported that the party had announced the immediate expulsion of central-committee member Ioannis Maltabes, citing its statement that the decision was meant to protect credibility, unity and the party's institutional functioning. The report did not describe the incidents.

Symbols, membership and finance

In Greek the party is Φωνή Λογικής. The Interior Ministry's 2026 funding decision styles it «ΦΩΝΗ ΛΟΓΙΚΗΣ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗ ΛΑΤΙΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ». English-language reporting, including Politico, calls it the Voice of Reason. It had been presented under the name «Πατρίδα». On 24 May 2023 Latinopoulou said she was renaming it Φωνή Λογικής in order to contest the 25 June election, after the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Areios Pagos), on an appeal by Konstantinos Bogdanos, blocked the name «Πατρίδα».

People joining online are told that their details must match the Interior Ministry electoral-roll service «Μάθε πού ψηφίζεις». The form asks for the name as it appears on the identity card, the father's and mother's names, date of birth, an email address, mobile-phone verification, and an address tied to voting rights.

For 2026, Interior Ministry decision 5272 of 30 January 2026, published in the Government Gazette (FEK B 452/3 February 2026), allocated the party €385,322.37 in regular state funding and €77,064.47 for research and training, €462,386.84 altogether, out of €40,161,600 for eligible parties under presidential decree 15/2022. The party is absent from that decision's first beneficiary list and is named on the second and third lists as well as in the payment table. For 2025, Alfavita reported a state-funding total of €420,000, which it attributed to the party's representation in the European Parliament.

Electoral performance

The 2023 legislative elections

Voice of Reason did not contest the parliamentary election of 21 May 2023. On 28 April 2023 the plenary of the A1 Civil Section of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Areios Pagos) unanimously excluded a list led by Afroditi Latinopoulou that was standing as Patrida. On 24 May she announced that the formation, founded as Patrida–Afroditi Latinopoulou, would be renamed Voice of Reason and would run in the repeat election of 25 June.

That June contest, for the 300-seat Hellenic Parliament, used a reinforced proportional system that bonuses the leading party and still withholds all seats from any list below 3 percent of the national vote. Voice of Reason received 22,347 votes, 0.43 percent, and no deputies. With 99.7 percent counted, the Associated Press reported that New Democracy had 40.55 percent and a majority of 158 seats, and that Syriza had 17.84 percent. Lists that cleared the threshold included the Spartans on 4.64 percent and 12 seats, Greek Solution on 4.44 percent, Niki on 3.69 percent and 10 seats, and Course of Freedom on 3.17 percent and eight seats. Voice of Reason's share was far below those entrants.

The 2024 European Parliament election

Greece elects its members of the European Parliament in a single nationwide constituency. In the election of 9 June 2024, part of the union-wide 2024 European Parliament election, 21 seats were at stake and lists below 3 percent won none. Official results published for the Parliament record Voice of Reason (Foni Logikis) at 3.04 percent and one seat, the only one the list obtained; turnout in Greece was 41.24 percent. Kathimerini, using the completed count, put the same 3.04 percent at 120,753 votes, against the 22,347 the list had taken nationally a year earlier. Latinopoulou was the MEP returned for the party.

On those official percentages, New Democracy led with 28.31 percent and seven seats, followed by Syriza on 14.92 percent and four, PASOK – Movement for Change on 12.79 percent and three, Greek Solution on 9.30 percent and two, and the Communist Party of Greece on 9.25 percent and two. Niki took 4.37 percent and one seat, and Course of Freedom 3.40 percent and one. MeRA25, at 2.54 percent, was the largest list left without a seat. Kathimerini's full-incorporation table matched those shares for the parties above and immediately below the line, and the same paper noted that the Spartans did not take part.

Greek European ballots also carry personal preference votes. As incorporation reached about 99.99 percent, Proto Thema reported 57,895 preferences for Latinopoulou; Avgi, publishing on 10 June 2024 as the count was being completed, reported 58,058. She was the only candidate on the list to be elected. The party has not won a seat in the Hellenic Parliament; its parliamentary representation after 2024 was the single European seat.

Subsequent polling

No further election to the Hellenic Parliament had been held by October 2026, so the June 2023 result remained the party's national tally: no deputies. Greek pollsters publish both voting intention and an estimate, or anagogi, that reallocates undecided respondents, and the two series differ.

In an MRB survey for OPEN, presented on 31 January 2025, the allocated figure for Voice of Reason was 8 percent, just behind Syriza on 8.4 percent and ahead of Course of Freedom on 7.4 percent, with New Democracy, PASOK, Greek Solution and the Communist Party higher still. Later 2025 surveys were lower. On 18 September 2025 Metron Analysis, for Mega, put the party's voting intention at 3.2 percent, tied with MeRA25 and behind New Democracy, PASOK, Greek Solution, Course of Freedom, the Communist Party and Syriza. The same day's MRB survey for OPEN had voting intention at 3.2 percent and an allocated estimate of 4.1 percent. A Pulse survey for Skai, published on 18 December 2025, left voting intention at 3 percent, unchanged from November, and its estimate placed the party just above the 3 percent line, inside a projected eight-party parliament; the "grey zone" of unallocated respondents was 18 percent.

In September 2026 the same firms still had the list near the threshold. Pulse for Skai, reported on 17 September, measured voting intention at 3 percent, unchanged from July, with a 12.5 percent grey zone, and its estimate included Voice of Reason among nine parties it projected into parliament. Metron Analysis, reported by Kathimerini on 24 September 2026, put voting intention at 4.4 percent, behind Course of Freedom on 4.9 percent and ahead of Elpida gia ti Dimokratia on 3.6 percent and MeRA25 on 3.0 percent. Across these named polls the list was generally measured around 3 to 4.4 percent in voting intention after the January 2025 MRB projection, with allocated estimates more often above 3 percent than below it.

European Parliament

Group affiliation

Voice of Reason entered the European Parliament in 2024 with one seat. Official results for Greece list the party as Foni Logikis/Φωνή λογικής, with 3.04% of the vote and one of 21 Greek seats, held by its founder, Afroditi Latinopoulou; her MEP page gives the party name as Foní Loyikís. The mandate is recorded from 16 July 2024, the opening of the tenth parliamentary term.

On 8 July 2024, before that term opened, Patriots for Europe constituted itself in Brussels. Reporting from the meeting counted 84 members from 14 national parties in 12 countries, including Voice of Reason's MEP, and described the group as far-right and sovereigntist. On that day it was reported as the third-largest group, ahead of the European Conservatives and Reformists (78) and Renew Europe (76) and behind the European People's Party (188) and the Socialists and Democrats (136). The same account presented the group as replacing Identity and Democracy, with parties leaving that group joined by Fidesz, ANO 2011 and Vox, and with Jordan Bardella of France's National Rally elected president. It also tied the project to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. From 16 July 2024 the Parliament has registered Latinopoulou as a member of the Patriots for Europe bureau.

Membership of the European political party Patriots.eu is separate from the parliamentary group. On 26 September 2024 Patriots.eu announced four new member parties — Fidesz, Vox, ANO 2011 and Foni Logikis — and said that it then had twelve member parties in all. Its published list has continued to include Foni Logikis, with Latinopoulou named beside the Greek party.

Greek Solution and Niki did not enter that group. The results place Greek Solution's two seats, won with 9.30% by Emmanouil Fragkos and Galato Alexandraki, in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, and the one seat of Dimokratikó Patriotikó Kínima “Níki” (Niki), won with 4.37% by Nikolaos Anadiotis, among the non-attached members. Anadiotis's MEP page still lists him as a non-attached member of that party. Reporting on 8 July 2024 treated Niki as outside Patriots for Europe and as one of several parties that might join a separate formation further to the right, then being discussed around Alternative for Germany.

Committees and parliamentary work

From 19 July 2024 Latinopoulou has been a full member of the Committee on Regional Development and of the Committee on Culture and Education, and a substitute on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. From 19 September 2024 she has been a full member of the Delegation for relations with the United States. From 19 May 2025 she has also been a member of the Parliament's Intergroup on Christians in the Middle East.

Her registered work has been questions to the European Commission and plenary speeches. On 3 March 2025 she asked for figures on the cost of migration, which the question called illegal, including returns. On 30 April 2025 she asked whether Frontex was securing the external borders and whether its powers would be increased, referring to Evros, the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean. On 7 August 2025 she asked about NGOs on Greek islands and in Evros and about oversight of groups she said were working outside the legal framework. On 18 March 2025 she asked about delays to Greece's European Train Control System and cited the Tempi rail crash. On 24 September 2025 she asked how the Commission would answer Turkish actions in the exclusive economic zones of Greece and Cyprus, which the question called violations of the law of the sea.

Plenary contributions listed for her in 2026 included debates on political violence, the gender pay and pension gap, fundamental rights, the Commission's rule-of-law report, Roma inclusion, a commemoration of Armenians and Greeks of Pontos and Asia Minor, the 2025 Commission report on Türkiye, the 1974 Turkish invasion and Cypriot women and girls, the case of Maria Shahbaz in Pakistan, and the State of the Union on 16 September 2026. On 3 March 2026 she co-signed an oral question to the Commission on the third anniversary of the Tempi crash; the text said 57 people had died on 28 February 2023. Written questions on her page in September 2026 included possible EU penalties for Greece over recycling targets (24 September) and migration at Ceuta (15 September).

In a separate procedure, the Committee on Legal Affairs on 7 September 2026 adopted a report proposing that Parliament waive her immunity. The Greek request had been announced in plenary on 19 January 2026, and the committee heard her on 3 June 2026.

Legal proceedings

Exclusion from the May 2023 election

On 28 April 2023 the plenary of the A1 Political Section of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Areios Pagos) unanimously ruled that Patrida (Greek: Πατρίδα), led by Afroditi Latinopoulou, could not stand in the May 2023 legislative elections. The court upheld a complaint by Konstantinos Bogdanos, then an outgoing member of the Hellenic Parliament. His party, Patriotic Force for Change, was commonly known as Patrida. Bogdanos, a former New Democracy MP, had founded it in September 2022 and named Latinopoulou, a former New Democracy candidate, deputy president. He later expelled her, and she formed a separate party styled Patrida–Afroditi Latinopoulou. Judges accepted the appeal for appropriation of the name “ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ” and unlawful use of the symbol of the party he had founded, the formation she had left only when expelled. The bar applied to that May ballot. Proto Thema later reported that the list was renamed Voice of Reason–Afroditi Latinopoulou.

Founding signatures and parliamentary immunity

In Greece, a party must collect at least 200 signatures from citizens with the right to vote in order to take part in elections. On 14 November 2024 Bogdanos filed a report with Areios Pagos accusing Latinopoulou of founding Voice of Reason with forged signatures. He said former members, including Ion Andrikopoulos, claimed that signatures lodged with the court did not correspond to real people, and that many of the 200 required to form a party had been fabricated. His lawyer, Theodoros Mantas, called the allegation severe and asked for an immediate check. The same account said that, after the May exclusion and the change of name, the party had not filed a new set of 200 signatures, which the outlet described as legally required. Those claims were not a finding that any signature was false.

On 11 November 2025 Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis, answering independent MP Giorgos Manousos, told parliament that a case file opened in January 2025 was under review by a prosecutor. He said the inquiry followed a complaint of possible forgery and was examining whether the signatures on the founding declaration were genuine. Photocopies, including the signatures, had been sent from the Supreme Court to the Interior Ministry, which oversees elections and parties. Latinopoulou had not responded when that account was published. A party official told Politico the claims were “absurdities stemming from fear of the rise of our political party and originating from attacks by a political opponent, who is known for his vulgarity in Greece.”

Because she was a member of the European Parliament, Greek judicial authorities asked Parliament to waive her immunity so that the case could go forward. On 15 September 2026 the plenary adopted a report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and lifted her immunity for the proceedings in the Greek request. The committee had voted on 7 September and forwarded the report two days later. The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, summarizing the report, said that in December 2025 the Deputy Prosecutor of Areios Pagos forwarded a request from the prosecutor’s office at the Court of First Instance of Athens. It concerned an investigation into the alleged drawing up and use of forged documents and alleged repeated fraud against voters, dated from 2023 to June 2024. The report said she was alleged to have founded the party in breach of the 200-signature rule, and that a significant part of the founding signatures was alleged to be fictitious or forged. Authorities were also examining whether that affected public funding, the party’s operation after it was founded, and its part in the 2023 national elections and the 2024 European Parliament election.

The waiver is not a finding on the facts, does not replace an investigation or a trial, and does not by itself end her term. Any later effect of a conviction on her mandate would be for the national authorities. In a letter of 15 January 2026 to Parliament President Roberta Metsola, which Greek Reporter said was published on the party website, she asked for the waiver, said she did not want immunity to block scrutiny, and stated that an impartial hearing would establish her innocence.

Other cases

In June 2025 Latinopoulou sued the National Gallery–Alexandros Soutsos Museum over the temporary exhibition “Η Σαγήνη του Αλλόκοτου,” which Kathimerini rendered as “The Allure of the Strange.” Works by Christoforos Katsadiotis reworked Eastern Orthodox iconography, and she said the exhibition mocked religious faith; in a social-media video she said she would seek an injunction. The dispute followed damage to works by MP Nikos Papadopoulos, then of Niki, whom that party later suspended and who sat on as an independent. The gallery reinstalled the pieces under tighter security, and a police file on the vandalism went to Parliament. That file was not a case against Voice of Reason.

On 29 September 2025 the Multi-member Court of First Instance of Athens issued decision 168/2025, rejecting her application for interim measures as inadmissible. She had asked that Katsadiotis’s works be removed from the exhibition or not rehung. The show ran from 22 January to 30 September 2025 in the gallery’s central building, and the gallery announced the ruling on 1 October 2025. The decision concerned only that application for interim relief.

Relations with other parties

New Democracy

Afroditi Latinopoulou stood for New Democracy in Thessaloniki A' in July 2019. In June 2022, after she called television presenter Danae Barka a "wrong role model" in remarks about body weight, party sources said she held no office in the organization and would not be a candidate at the next national elections. On 5 August 2022 Konstantinos Bogdanos announced that she had joined National Creation, the alliance in which he was a leading figure. She later served as vice-president of his Patriotic Force for Change (PATRIDA) until 14 March 2023, when he accepted an electoral pact with Prodromos Emfietzoglou's Patriotic Union. Latinopoulou, the sole dissenter in a vote he put at 9–1, called the deal a sell-out and the meeting "a badly staged show of 20 of your friends."

As leader of Voice of Reason she has treated Kyriakos Mitsotakis as an opponent rather than a partner. In March 2025 she ruled out any collaboration with New Democracy and said he had "taken over a New Democracy and transformed it" toward the center-left. Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, answering her description of the prime minister as a "left-wing little soul," said in October 2024 that the phrasing recalled "reality shows of previous decades." Because she had joined Viktor Orbán and Marine Le Pen in Patriots for Europe in the European Parliament, rather than the European People's Party or Giorgia Meloni's group, he said she "officially belongs to the European far right" and was poorly placed to define New Democracy.

Parties to the party's right and the nationalist spectrum

Parties to New Democracy's right have competed for one electorate instead of combining. In December 2024 Kathimerini reported that Greek Solution, Voice of Reason and Niki together represented about a fifth of voters, but that ideological, political and personal divisions limited their influence. In September 2026 Enikos described that contest as effectively zero-sum, with a possible party of Antonis Samaras and a return by Ilias Kasidiaris expected to draw on the same voters.

The quarrel with Kyriakos Velopoulos has been personal as well as electoral. In March 2025 she said he was attacking her because Voice of Reason was "gaining ground," and dismissed as "nonsense" an objection he had filed to her European candidacy. In September 2026 she called him Mitsotakis's "little partner" and "a second 'Pinat,'" said he "always lends a shoulder" to the government in difficult votes, and claimed both men wanted a post-election deal — a claim NewsIT noted she did not document. Velopoulos has said Greek Solution's only cooperation is "with the Greek people."

Niki's Dimitris Natsios has drawn the line the other way. On 29 January 2026 he called Latinopoulou "flesh of the flesh of New Democracy," differing from it by "only two or three proposals," and faulted Velopoulos, a politician of thirty years, for supporting the death penalty, which Natsios called unacceptable for Orthodox Christians. In September 2026 he excluded any cooperation, before or after an election, with New Democracy or any other party, citing the same-sex marriage law and the OPEKEPE subsidy scandal.

The party's sharpest statement on Kasidiaris-linked politics was a protest, not an offer of alliance. After the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece left the Spartans off the June 2024 European ballot, Latinopoulou called the decision anti-democratic and said she believed the prime minister's office was behind it. In June 2025 an electoral court removed three Spartans MPs, including leader Vasilis Stigkas, finding that voters had been deceived because Kasidiaris, a convicted former Golden Dawn figure, rather than Stigkas, had directed the party.

Coalition stance

Latinopoulou has repeatedly ruled out alliances. In December 2024 she said she had no intention of "being under anyone, not even Antonis Samaras," which Kathimerini read as closing the door to discontented New Democracy cadres. In November 2025 she said she esteemed Samaras and agreed with him on some things, "but we will not cooperate with anyone." In September 2026 she again excluded cooperation, before or after the elections, with New Democracy — which she called a "socialist party" — or with a possible Samaras party. With Greek Solution and Niki stating refusals of their own, the parties to the government's right have remained rival lists rather than a bloc available for a bargain.

Reception and public controversy

Statements that drew national coverage

On 15 June 2022 Afroditi Latinopoulou, a Thessaloniki lawyer and former New Democracy candidate with no party office, recirculated beach photographs of Mega presenter Danae Barka. She wrote that, instead of addressing what she called Greece’s first place in Europe for child and adult obesity, “we promote such wrong health models in the context of woke culture. We will pay for it, unfortunately, but it will be too late.” The next morning Barka answered on air without naming her. “When a person’s only weapon is to comment on others, a sorrow comes over you, because you think how empty they may be,” she said, adding that such comments fed “the feeling of racism” and that she would not “take her name in my mouth, because I consider that if I do, I will make myself ugly.”

The same day, New Democracy sources told the Athens–Macedonian News Agency that she held “no office or position” on its organizational chart and “will not be a candidate in the next national elections.” in.gr headlined the break “Out of ND after the racist rant.” Politico later wrote that she was removed from New Democracy in 2022 after body-shaming a presenter and blamed “woke culture”; El País quoted her saying that “when the left sneezes, ND catches pneumonia.”

As a member of the European Parliament she treated foreign results as confirmation. After Donald Trump’s 2024 victory she posted that opponents had tried to assassinate him “politically” and “actually,” but that “the light of reason defeated the darkness of paranoia of the woke agenda, of illegal immigration and of benefits.” In February 2025 she told Action24 that the rise of Alternative for Germany had “parents” named Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, and that the fall of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party was “well deserved.”

On 1 December 2025, on Skai TV, she accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of an “umbilical cord of corruption” and, as Kathimerini noted, alleged without evidence that he had built “a huge state” for “cronies, associates, illegal immigrants, criminals and gypsies.” She called for a “sweep” so that only Greeks would live in Greek neighborhoods, and for migrants to be confined to Gyaros and Makronisos, uninhabited islands once used for exile. She said the death penalty should be reconsidered and proposed chemical or surgical castration for people convicted of sexual offenses against minors: “When we are talking about the lives of children, conditions have changed and we must change as well.” The government did not comment at once.

In June 2025 she turned to the National Gallery exhibition “The Seduction of the Bizarre,” which included engravings by Christoforos Katsadiotis reworking Orthodox iconography. Writing “above all as a Greek Orthodox Christian woman,” she said the publicly funded show “mocks our faith” and that “the freedom of art stops where the insult to our Faith begins.”

Criticism

Georgios Samaras, of King’s College London, told Kathimerini that, “without any evidence of public policy other than communication policy,” she “threatens migrants with the death penalty” and “relies on conspiracy theories about population shrinkage.” El País wrote that her image differed from the street violence of Golden Dawn, but that the political space she sought was the same, and Kathimerini called the December migration remarks “inflammatory.”

After an MP from Niki tore down four Katsadiotis works in March 2025, the gallery’s board condemned “every act of vandalism, violence and censorship” of artistic expression. Katsadiotis told Kathimerini the works were “poetic,” that “no one is obliged to agree with me,” and that “the artist’s role is to put forward views and questions.” In September, demonstrators with crosses and banners gathered outside; police stopped them entering. Roma organizations answered her television language more broadly: on 9 July 2025 Efimerida ton Syntakton reported that two human-rights NGOs and four Roma bodies had complained to the Athens prosecutor of repeated public incitement to hatred, citing appearances in which she called Roma “gypsies” and linked them to theft, benefits, child marriage and attacks on doctors.