European parliamentary elections. The KOE supported the Coalition of the Radical Left in 2004, although it did not present its own candidates. The KOE also abstained from the 2004 European parliamentary elections. The KOE affiliated itself with the SYRIZA on 20 June 2007. The best scores of the KOE's candidates on the joint ticket with SYRIZA in the 2007 Greek legislative elections were in Aitoloakarnania (1st with 1,126 votes), Achaia (2nd with 2,628 votes), Thessaloniki (2nd with 2,165 votes), Larissa (3rd with 1,294 votes), Attica (3rd with 4,022 votes) and Piraeus (3rd with 1,958 votes). In the last two, consecutive national parliamentary elections in May and June 2012, KOE elected 2 and 5 respectively of its members in the national parliament as a part of SYRIZA, which ended up as the second party. Following the June 2012 elections, 5 MPs from SYRIZA were members of KOE: Vasileios Hadjilamprou (Achaia), Dimitrios Kodelas (Argolida), Alexandros Meikopoulos (Magnisia), Vasileios Kiriakakis (Fthiotida) and Maria Triantafyllou (Aitoloakarnania). As of 10 September 2015 KOE announced they would not run for the snap election in September encouraging its voters to absent from the elections or vote for 'no one'. Front organizations The workers' front organization of the KOE is called the "Union of the Working People", the youth group of the KOE is simply called the "Youth of KOE" and its students are members of "Left Unity", which includes several leftist students' organizations supporting SYRIZA. Until 2008, its students led the Left Groups (Aristera Schimata), created in 1989. International relations The Communist Organization of Greece is a member of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO), a founding member of the Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties of the Balkans (CCWPB) and a founding member of the Anti-Imperialist Space in the European Social Forum. References External links / Drómos tis Aristerás home page CCWPB home page Communist parties in Greece Former components of Syriza International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (International Newsletter) International League of Peoples' Struggle International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations