Word: pasok
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presence of the Political Spring cost the New Democracy party several seats in parliament, which could have prevented an absolute majority by PASOK...
Members of the Harvard Greek community closely watched this week's national elections in Greece, in which Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), regained his seat in a victory over Constantine Mitsotakis and the New Democracy Party...
...PASOK gained 46.9 percent of the vote and secured 171 of the 300-seat parliament, according to The Associated Press...
Mitsotakis had hoped for at least 120 seats so the New Democracy party could block PASOK's absolute majority in parliament...
Undergraduate Council Chair Michael P. Beys '94, however, was not supportive of PASOK's victory. "From my studies of international political economy, I've come to realize that Greece is not easily going to be able to keep up with the European nations without a fiercely capitalist economy...