Communist Party of Greece (KKE) general secretary Aleka Papariga continued her campaign appearances ahead of the Sept. 16 election on Thursday, this time with a visit to the General Secretariat of Sports (GGA) in Athens.

"Don't let them scare you. They (the two main parties) want the highest degree of two-party rule as possible; comfortable government majorities in order to have the freedom and ease to squash, literally, the working class' rights, or what is left of them," Papariga said.

In touching on the state organisation's specific objective, she said that the communist party was against the "commercialisation" of sports and against the professional sports model, whereas it favors a "sports for the masses" approach and not a results-based system, i.e. championships, all-out competition etc.

Along those lines, she said that this the reason her party voted against a recent bill writing-off debts of pro football clubs.

"Let businessmen get out of the way so the people can subsidise sports for the masses," she proposed.