Word: papandreou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caramanlis wins, but Papandreou comes on strong...
...symbolic winner in the election was Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which doubled its vote to 25% and won 92 seats, thereby becoming Greece's second leading party and the main opposition. PASOK overtook George Mavros' middle-of-the-road Democratic Center Union, which fell to 12% of the vote and won only 15 seats. On the far right, the new National Rally Party won 7% and five seats; on the far left, Greece's two Communist parties-one Moscow-lining, the other Eurocommunist in outlook and running jointly with other splinter groups-garnered...
This time it was jubilant PASOK supporters who celebrated and Papandreou who claimed victory. To the cheers of a partisan crowd that gathered outside as the returns piled up, the fiery socialist Papandreou sauntered happily into the government election center and lifted both hands high in the classic V sign. At their old headquarters building in the commercial and student section of Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after...
...from New Democracy's conservative wing. Under the peculiarities of the system, the National Rally's five seats would have translated into 30 additional seats for Caramanlis. But friend and foe alike agreed that another important factor was the contrasting campaign styles-and personalities-of Caramanlis and Papandreou...
...elections of 1961 were rigged and in 1965 the king arbitrarily fired Prime Minister George Papandreou, who had just received 53 per cent of the popular vote in the election...