 In the mid 1990s a green-left list was organised to participate in local elections.The list had a strongly anti-nationalistic stance during a period in which nationalistic sentiments were stirred by the name and flag of Greece's new neighbour, the Republic of Macedonia, as well as the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.In local elections in 1998, the list received the support of Synaspismos, the Greek Party of the European Left, and had one member, Tremopoulos, elected to the Prefecture Council.