Word: pasok
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Another Right Turn Europe 's left took a new beating as Greeks voted in a conservative government, ousting George Papandreou's socialist PASOK party, which had dominated Greek politics for more than two decades. Incoming Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, head of the victorious New Democracy party, is the nephew and namesake of a former PM, and was elected on a pledge of more jobs and a crackdown on corruption. The move to the right in Greece is just one of a series of recent snubs to leftist governments. In 2002, voters in France gave conservative President Jacques Chirac the parliamentary...
Election Gamble GREECE Socialist Prime Minister Costas Simitis announced his plans to stand down as leader of the ruling PASOK party in favor of popular Foreign Minister George Papandreou, to boost the party's fortunes ahead of early elections in March. Papandreou has an uphill task; the conservative New Democracy Party is well ahead in opinion polls...