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	PASOK ( Panhellenic Socialist Movement)
		PASOK was established on September 3, 1974 following the fall of the Greek military regime and the restoration of democracy.
		PASOK hoped that Papandreou could reverse the slide in the opinion polls which saw the opposition New Democracy party under Costas Caramanlis 7% ahead at the start of the year.
		PASOK is a member of the Party of European Socialists and the Socialist International.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Info/PASOK.html (892 words)

	PASOK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		PASOK's Executive Bureau until 1979 when he was considered responsible for the Propaganda of the Party after he had released a poster with the slogan " No to the Europe of Monopolies Yes to the Europe of People".
		PASOK Congress re-elected him a member of the Central Committee and on September first of the same year he was once more elected to full membership of the Executive Bureau with 91 votes.
		PASOK's third Congress on April 17, 1994 re-elected him as member of the Central Committee and a month later he was re-elected as a member of the 18-member Executive Bureau.
	www.pasok.gr /en/president/cv.html (884 words)

	Special: Elections 96
		Between 1989 and 1993 PASOK was an opposition party to regain the first place in the elections of 1993 when it received 47% of the votes and formed an one-party government with Andreas Papandreou as Prime Minister.
		Current leader of the party, and Prime Minister also, Constantinos Simitis, was elected by the 4th Convention of PASOK, on the 30th of June 1996, succeeding Andreas Papandreou, leader of the party from its establishment to his death on the 23rd 1996.
		PASOK's regional structure consists of the Prefectural Committees that reside at the seats of the electoral districts, and the Local Organisations where all the members are organised.
	www.hri.org /MPA/elections96/PASOK.html (288 words)

	Party Politics in Greece, 1963-2000
		PASOK and New Democracy became embroiled in a fierce electoral competition over the future of the 1975 constitution and the nation as a whole; PASOK advocated increased legislative power and popular control of the governmental mechanism, while New Democracy encouraged continued adherence to the 1975 constitution and stability (Clogg, 1987: 109-12).
		PASOK retained 123 seats despite garnering only 39% of the vote, while the newly formed Coalition of the Left and Progress (consisting of the KKE, Greek Left, the United Democratic Left, and other minor leftist parties) gained 19 seats with 10% of the vote (Caramani, 2000: 510-1).
		PASOK once again climbed into the majority, gaining 47% of the vote and 170 seats, while New Democracy was only able to retain 111 seats with 39% of the vote.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/1-WestCentralEurope/14-Greece/Greece63-00.html (2187 words)

	State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 48-year-old businessman said Pasok would field candidates in all 60 state seats and 25 parliamentary seats at stake in Sabah in the next general election.
		We believe that Pasok is the best local party to represent the interest of Sabahans both at the state legislative assembly and in Parliament.
		However, he said, Pasok was open to discussion with other opposition parties in the state, especially Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), with a view to finding solutions to unite all the opposition parties in facing the mighty machinery of the Barisan Nasional in the election.
	www.bernama.com.my /bernama/state_news/news.php?id=233743&cat=sbe (395 words)

	Wall Street Journal
		Simitis said he will remain prime minister until the election but will give up leadership of Pasok, the socialist party that itself has had a checkered career in ruling the country in all but three of the last 23 years.
		Pasok was organized in 1974 by a man who would have been hard to match for arrogance, Andreas Georgios Papandreou.
		He was born in the U.S. during his father's sojourn as a professor in exile and is very much attuned to the modern world.
	www.hellenicfederation.org /Zorba.htm (1044 words)

	Panayote Dimitras, Are Greek Socialists On the Way Out?
		PASOK's losses benefited the smaller—apolitical or extreme left—protest parties that received altogether 5,5% instead of 2,5%; but also two of the three parliamentary parties of the left, the traditional communist KKE -that rose from 5,5% to 8,5%- and the socialist splinter DIKKI -that also rose from 4,5% to 7%.
		PASOK hopes that, in 2000, these factors will be marginalized and most of these voters will return to it, in the face of the possibility that voting for KKE or DIKKI could contribute to the return of “the worse of the two evils,” ND, to power.
		If such a strong “patriotic and anti-imperialist” front emerges, PASOK has the choice to fight it outright so as to discredit it (such choice was never the strong point of the low key prime minister) or to move towards its direction so as to minimize potential electoral losses, thus jeopardizing Greece's future.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/62/408.html (1190 words)

	An Athenian Diary
		PASOK has not had an easy time of it in the last few months.
		(That was 1985, PASOK won, and the streets of Athens were literally impassable for hours.) A phalanx of motorcycle cops had been stationed at the Plateia, but they were standing around with nothing to do; there wasn't realli all that much traffic in the streets.
		I know an ND supporter, but she wasn't exactly thrilled with ND's victory -- disappointed that Karamanlis announced a bunch of old men as his cabinet appointees (belying the picture of youth that the posters projected, and perhaps disappointing other younger ND voters), lacking enthusiasm for the direction policies were likely to take.
	www.trincoll.edu /~greger/AD41.htm (858 words)

	PASOK scrapes to victory in Greek general election
		PASOK and the NDP are equally committed to Greek membership of the euro-zone—one of the major issues in the election campaign.
		At election rallies, PASOK and the NDP competed to be toughest on immigration, promising a crackdown on "illegal entrants", mainly focussed against Albanian immigrants.
		The international markets are particularly insistent that PASOK must set a deadline for ending the index-linking of wages—the catch-up increase awarded if the government's year-end inflation target is overshot amounts to 0.7 percent this year.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/apr2000/grec-a11.shtml (1222 words)

	Socialism Today - Greece conservative election victory
		The former PASOK leader, Kostas Simitis, had been able to win the previous two elections (in 1996 and 2000) by taking advantage of a favourable combination of circumstances and going early to the polls.
		PASOK included on its electoral list Manos and Andrianopoulos, extreme neo-liberal ex-ministers from the hated Thatcherite Mitsotakis government in the early 1990s.
		PASOK will not provide a left opposition to the ND either on the political front or on the industrial front.
	www.socialismtoday.org /82/greece.html (1024 words)

	Debate on PASOK's no-confidence motion kicks off in Parliament
		PASOK MP for Thessaloniki Evangelos Venizelos accused the government of "demeaning and trivializing" democratic procedures and said there was an issue "Constitutional legality".
		PASOK MP Theodoros Pangalos slammed Parliament President Anna Psarouda-Benaki for saying that those in charge of the proceedings were "momentarily carried away" to descibe what he called an attempt to "falsify Parliament's verdict during a debate on revising the Constitution".
		In response to PASOK's threat to withdraw from the debate on revising the Constitution, Antonaros stressed that there was no way for Papandreou to justify resorting to such tactics.
	www.ana-mpa.gr /anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=5029824&maindocimg=5028382&service=6 (1195 words)

	The lessons of the recent defeat of the PASOK
		The PASOK government, because of its continuous attacks against the workers, its austerity policies, the numerous scandals, its close collaboration with the bosses, was becoming more and more isolated from the workers, the unemployed and the poor.
		It is clearly the result of the fact that a part of the PASOK voters, especially the most marginalized elements (the unemployed, very poor, peasants, and middle class people that have been hit by the crisis) decided to punish the party for the anti-worker policy that its leadership had adopted throughout the previous years.
		The defeat of the PASOK was also the result of the decision of the ruling class that the Simitis government had served its time.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/Pasok_recent_defeat.html (2531 words)

	The lessons of the recent defeat of the PASOK in the Greek elections
		Simitis, the outgoing PASOK Prime Minister, was discredited and the PASOK leadership, in a desperate attempt to stop the unstoppable, decided to present a new face to the electorate, that of George Papandreou, son of the more famous late Papandreou who led the PASOK for many years.
		A group of PASOK MPs and a Minister presented a scandalous new law to be voted just before the parliament was to be dismissed, which would allow a hotel company to build thousands of bungalows in a forest are.
		In the last few days before the elections the PASOK leadership tried everything to reverse the negative data by promising a doubling of the lower pensions, free travel tickets for the unemployed, and many other reforms, but all was in vain.
	www.marxist.com /defeat-pasok-greek-elections180304.htm (2425 words)

	general elections in greece March 7th 2004
		The Deputy Prime Minister and nine PASOK MP's (including Theodoros Katsanevas, George Papandreou's brother-in-law), who had voted in his favour, were banned from the party's candidature lists in the general elections, without however being excluded from the party.
		This change at the head of PASOK has enabled the party to climb back in the opinion polls and to reduce by half the gap between it and its main rivals New Democracy.
		Amongst the PASOK promises there is a new employment system focussing on young people that aims to limit unemployment to a maximum period of six months, rebates for tax payers and companies, an increase in pensions, the creation of new hospitals and the institution of participatory democracy by the organisation of local referenda.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/grece/default.htm (1530 words)

	Greek News - PM Simitis Announces Elections on March 7, New Leader for PASOK
		In his address to gathered Central Committee members, he called on them to agree to an emergency PASOK conference on February 6 and proposed that the new leader be elected by the entire PASOK membership in a vote to be held on February 8, two days after the conference.
		Finally, in a message that analysts believe was aimed at high-ranking PASOK members that have been slow to support his latest initiatives, such as Alekos Papadopoulos and Costas Laliotis, Simitis urged all members of PASOK to put personal egotism aside and bear in mind that this was not the way to win elections.
		PASOK votes to change party charter for election of new president: Members of ruling PASOK's Central Committee on Thursday gave a yea vote to the prime minister's proposal to change the party charter, so that the new party leader will be elected by PASOK's entire support base, namely all PASOK ''members and friends''.
	www.greeknewsonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=868 (1153 words)

	Greek News - PASOK Approves Proposal Regarding a New Government
		PASOK on Saturday bestowed conferred an award on Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, chief organiser of the Athens 2004 Olympics, for her contribution to the global event.
		He answered indirectly to the double-sided widening of PASOK, saying that it fulfilled the proletariat and international duty, but PASOK is not ready to vote for the supporters of those opinions.
		In the new PASOK, there is room for differing opinions, but not for dominating behaviour and arrogant interpretations, stressed Giorgos Panagiotakopoulos of the Left Initiative, and referring to George Papandreou, he said that the captain is responsible for avoiding the storm.
	www.greeknewsonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2833 (728 words)

	General Strike In Greece
		This was the workers' answer to attempts by the social democratic government of PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) to reform the social welfare system by reducing pensions, raising the retirement age, and opening up the way to private insurance companies.
		Through all its years in government, from 1993 until today, PASOK has fixated on the goal of getting Greece in ONE, which means that it has been dedicated to an austerity program of privatization, flexible labor relations, restrictive income policies, and cuts in social spending.
		We are opening up to united action with everyone on the left-including PASOK's base-with the aim of supporting the struggles of the movement and achieving concrete victories for workers.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Europe/General_Strike_Greece.html (1869 words)

	Greece PASOK's Second Term, 1985-89 - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Sensing public disenchantment, PASOK abandoned the slogan of change and mounted a largely negative electoral campaign, arguing that it needed more time to implement its program and raising the specter of a return to power of a vengeful right.
		Especially alarming for Papandreou were the local elections of 1986, in which ND scored large gains in communities throughout the country and, more important psychologically, managed to elect mayors in the two largest cities of Greece--Athens and Thessaloniki--as well as Piraeus.
		PASOK resumed its strategy of seeking public approval by public-sector hiring, which reached massive proportions in the months before the 1989 election.
	www.photius.com /countries/greece/government/greece_government_pasoks_second_term~192.html (382 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| PASOK wants to put economy on the agenda
		PASOK Chairman George Papandreou wants to see the government’s economic policy and its effect on social cohesion on the agenda of a parliamentary debate between party leaders.
		Third, PASOK wants to extricate itself from the discussion on macroeconomic issues, as it seems the doomsayers who predicted that the 2006 budget would fail and the government would be forced to impose emergency taxes have been proved wrong.
		PASOK avoided taking a clear position on the strikers’ demands, and Papandreou did not comment on the government’s decision to mobilize them.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_1626450_27/02/2006_66894 (594 words)

	PASOK Wins Greek Elections :: Aegean Times :: Greek and Turkish News and Discussion
		With 99% of the votes counted, the ruling Socialist party, PASOK has won the Greek general elections by 1% --the closest result in recent history.
		The mainstream in both Pasok and ND, furthermore, stand more for the more nationalistic views that have been gaining ground in the last few years, than do their "internal opposition" sub-groups.
		A more clear victory for Pasok would have been a better result, as it would set in motion the cleansing that is so necessary in ND, setting the stage for a similar cleansing in Pasok in the future.
	www.aegeantimes.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=369 (484 words)

	Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Political party, Greece) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		PASOK was founded by Andreas Papandreou in 1974.
		PASOK won the legislative election for the first time in October 1981.
		The flag of PASOK is green with a white rising sun and the party acronym ΠΑΣΟΚ placed below.
	www.fotw.net /flags/gr}pasok.html (148 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| PASOK rings changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During a brief meeting of PASOK’s political council yesterday afternoon, Papandreou told high-ranking party officials that he would be replacing his previous choice for party secretary and putting the political council up for re-election.
		PASOK had been hoping for a better performance to use as a springboard to reduce New Democracy’s relatively steady lead in opinion polls.
		Papandreou’s decisions are due to be rubber-stamped during a meeting of PASOK’s national council today as the Socialist leader reshuffles his pack ahead of general elections, which are due to take place in the next 15 months.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_01/12/2006_77250 (388 words)

	Greece THE RISE AND FALL OF PAPANDREOU AND PASOK - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		In the election of October 1981, PASOK and Papandreou swept into power with 48 percent of the popular vote and 172 seats in parliament.
		The ND, which could not match Papandreou's charisma or the novelty of PASOK's program, finished a distant second with 36 percent of the vote and 115 seats, and the KKE came in third with 11 percent and thirteen seats.
		Between the 1977 and 1981 elections, PASOK and its leader had continued the move away from an initial image as a Marxism-based, class-oriented party, in order to reassure centrist voters.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/greece/greece_history_the_rise_and_fall_of_papandreou_and_pasok.html (275 words)

	Greek voters put ruling party on notice - World - www.theage.com.au
		Pasok may be falling victim to expectations raised by its own success.
		But Pasok's main problem may be closer to home: corruption, scandals and revelations of blatant cronyism have badly sullied the party's image.
		The platforms of New Democracy and Pasok are more similar than in many previous elections, leaving voters to make subtle distinctions and speculative judgements.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/16/1076779903650.html (590 words)

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