ERT Gaffa with the Communist Party logo: He took off the hammer train and set up the New York torch.

His logo changed during the newscast in causing severe reactions. On New Year’s Eve during ERT report on the KKE the party logo had undergone a change. The classic hammer train was gone and the SW torch had entered its place. CORVERSE The issue was brought to light by a social media post by journalist Nikos Bogiopoulos and the controversial photo from the report. It was the reaction of the Communist Party that mentions a pre-election action through its announcement. ADVERSE “An inconceivable, but unforgivable, incident against the KKE took place on New Year’s afternoon, when in the ERT’s main newscast at 18.00, and in the report on the parties’ messages for the new year the Party’s Central Committee message for 2025, accompanied by a falsified KKE emblem was shown. In particular, instead of the official emblem with the hammered roller, used by the Communist Party on its ballots and elsewhere, a processing product was shown where over the letters KKE is depicted the torch of the NW! This is a proboktarian image that has been on the internet for several years and has been used by websites and accounts on the Social Networking instruments of anti-communist content, mainly of the fascist area and which has been formally and repeatedly denounced. For this inconceivable incident, which caused the justified reaction of many people who attended the particular ERT bulletin, the KKE’s Press Office proceeded to a direct protest to ERT receiving the answer that it concerns an error in creating the relevant video, as instead of drawing the KKE’s emblem from ERT’s graphics archive, it was pumped lightly from online sources and then ERT corrected the video for the following bulletins. In addition, she received assurances that all measures will be taken to ensure that there is no specific video with the falsified emblem on her online media, but that it does not repeat itself. The JRC denounces this incident as unacceptable, as it has done in similar cases in the past and will also move to the Internet search engines to ensure that this falsified image does not appear as a finding relating to the JRC.’