A decision to disqualify a far-right group from participating in Greece’s forthcoming general election was taken in the interests of safeguarding democracy, the country’s supreme court has said. The nation’s highest legal body said the extremist Hellenes party was clearly “the successor” of the now defunct Golden Dawn, whose neo-Nazi leaders are serving jail terms for crimes ranging from murder to assault. “The aim of the accused, Ilias Kasidiaris, was to reappear once again on the political scene,” the justices wrote in a 400-page explication of the ruling, extracts of which were published on Thursday. “He founded the new party...