Word: pasok
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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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...
...were also bitterly divided among themselves, so much so that some party leaders counseled their followers to vote for Caramanlis. Others backed the Premier because they feared that a strong Communist showing might provoke another round of repression or possibly another military coup. Even so, the combined showing of Pasok and the United Left (23%) was considerably better than the 12% that the left captured in the last election...
...next afternoon two minor earthquakes hit Athens-strong enough to make windows rattle, tables and chairs tremble. A fitting prelude to Andreas Papandreou's appearance in Syntagma Square? Perhaps. For the former Berkeley and Harvard economics professor, leader of the new Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), had brought an unsettling element to the campaign. Barnstorming the country in a black leather jacket, followed by hordes of young people in jeans and faded army field jackets, he brought a new style of campaigning to Greece and emerged as a political messiah of the young...