As of today, in 1974, Andreas Papandreou founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). The official presentation of the new party took place at the Athens King Palace Hotel, in the presence of 150 people, which were its founding core.
The central slogan referring to the Declaration and defines the principles of the new party was the quadruple “national independence – popular sovereignty – social liberation – democracy”.
As Andreas Papandreou pointed out, the “basic dominant goal of the movement is to create a state -free state or interventions, a state free from control or influence of economic oligarchy.
A few years later, in 1981, he wins power.
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The fall of the junta on July 24, 1974, found the Andrea Papandreouexiled to Canada. In early August, Andreas makes the decision to come to Greece and lead a party. On August 6, the National Council of the Pan -Hellenic Liberation Movement (PAK), a resistance organization that had established during the dictatorship and proclaimed not only the fall of the junta, but also the “release of it” for the first and last time. Socialist transformation of Greek society. “
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In that unstable political atmosphere, the son of the “old man of the Republic” refused to inherit the Center Union and launched a new radical movement that promoted the demand of socialism. His venture found resistance from his environment. They thought it was “crazy” to prefer to build a new party than to “inherit” a ready -made man who would not make it difficult for him to take power.
The final elaboration of the declaration took place on the afternoon of September 2, 1974 in the dining room of Andrea Papandreou’s house in Kastri. The suggestions were many for the name. Some spoke of a Greek Socialist Party and others proposed a Labor Party. Some supported the proposal of Panhellenic Socialist Movement for the Renaissance of Greece (PASOKAE). But there were objections as some executives expressed the view that the word “regeneration” refers to the junta.
Finally, the first statement by PASOK’s logo in the Supreme Court said “Pan -Hellenic Socialist Party”. Papandreou will ask for a “movement” amended two days later, with a corrective statement.
PASOK participated for the first time in the 1974 national elections, with 13.58%, which was translated into the emergence of 13 Members.
In the 1977 parliamentary elections, PASOK doubled its percentage and elected 93 MPs, occupying the position of the opposition.
The years of the absolute glory of PASOK, they did not take long. In 1981, PASOK became the country’s first leftist government. It leaves a heavy legacy in the place, but in the 2010s, the era of the economic crisis finds it.
George Christou