Word: pasok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forces Party of former Foreign Minister George Mavros, which handily won Greece's last election before the colonels' coup, fell far short of expected goals, with only 20% of the vote and 60 seats. Trailing a poor third was Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) with 14% and twelve seats. Papandreou, son of the late George Papandreou, Greece's last elected premier, organized a "children's crusade" of sorts (see box following page), with young people campaigning around the country against the crown, the junta, the Establishment...
...prominent resistance leaders who stayed in Greece to fight the junta won seats in the new Parliament. So did Alexandras Panagoulis, the would-be assassin of ex-Dictator George Papadopoulos. But Actress Melina Mercouri, an outspoken opponent of the old regime, went down to a narrow defeat on the Pasok ticket in her working-class district in Piraeus. Another loser was Composer Mikis Theodorakis, who ran as one of the candidates of the United Left, an umbrella organization of Greece's three Communist parties...
...first time in nearly three decades that the Communists had been allowed to campaign legally, but they emerged as considerably less than a threat, gaining only 9% of the vote and eight seats. Papandreou's Pasok party, for one thing, drew votes away from the Communists, who attacked him as an "American stooge." At least 500,000 Communists did not vote because they had not registered last March when the junta was still in power-and registering then meant seeing the police...
...leftist party is called PASOK--Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Created by Andreas Papandreou, it promotes a Western brand of socialism and takes a vehemently anti-American, anti-NATO, anti-royalist stance; in effect, it perpetuates the underground resistance organization PAK (Panhellenic Liberation Movement). Andreas--as he is universally known--advocates neutrality, promotes the Third World and comes across aggressively, enthusiastically and eloquently. Many people consider the man a threat to post-junta stability; of all the politicians (besides the Communists, who have little apparent power or desire to exert any radical influenced, have suffered suppression, and are newly haunted...