Editing Democratic Social Movement (section)

=== Failures and disputes ===
After these initial successes, however, DIKKI failed to elect members to the Hellenic Parliament on two consecutive elections; it received 2.69% of the vote in the [[2000 Greek legislative election|2000 legislative election]] and 1.8% of the vote in the [[2004 Greek legislative election|2004 legislative election]].

After the 2004 election, Tsovolas unilaterally decided to dissolve DIKKI and give the party possessions away to the Greek state. That decision led to a conflict between the party leader and the National Committee, who voted against the dissolution; there are accusations that Tsovolas went through these actions, because he was planning to be readmitted in PASOK in the near future.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dikki.org/Telos.asp |title=P. Mantas, ''Tsovolas expelled his history on his own |access-date=2008-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204011458/http://www.dikki.org/Telos.asp |archive-date=2008-12-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The National Committee went to law and the court ruled that the party is legally administered by the national executive bodies, thus it cannot cease to exist unless the National Congress or the National Committee takes such decision.{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} The party possessions were returned and Tsovolas was expelled.