Drasi

Drassi Δράση
Leader	Theodoros Skylakakis
General Secretary	Melina Daskalakis
Spokesperson	Panagiotis Michalopoulos
Founder	Stefanos Manos
Founded	2009 (2009)
Preceded by	The Liberals (Greece)
Headquarters	98Α, Vasilissis Sofias Avenue, 11528, Athens
Ideology	Liberalism Classical liberalism
Political position	Centre
European affiliation	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
European Parliament group	No MEPs
Slogan	Citizens, not clients
Parliament	0 / 300
European Parliament	0 / 22
Regions	39 / 725
Website
www.drassi.gr
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Drassi (Greek: Δράση; English: Action) is a liberal minor political party in Greece. The party was founded in 2009 by Stefanos Manos and is led by former New Democracy member Theodoros Skylakakis. The party has no representation in the Hellenic Parliament or European Parliament. Drassi is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) party.

Stefanos Manos left New Democracy (ND) in 1999 to found The Liberals, before later running on ND and Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) electoral lists in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Unlike The Liberals, Drassi was not founded as an expressly liberal party, but claims to espouse "common sense" as an ideological basis.

In its first contested election, the 2009 European elections, Drassi finished ninth with 0.8% of the vote. It subsequently did not participate in the general election in October 2009.

In the May 2012 legislative election, Drassi ran in electoral alliance with the Liberal Alliance. It won 1.8% of the vote finishing twelfth overall, directly behind the Democratic Alliance and Recreate Greece, which both had similar liberal ideologies to Drassi. Ahead of new elections in June 2012 legislative election, Drassi and the Liberal Alliance formed an electoral pact with Recreate Greece, while the Democratic Alliance, which they had also approached, refused to join them and ran on the New Democracy list instead.