PASOK

Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα
AbbreviationPASOK, ΠΑΣΟΚ
PresidentNikos Androulakis
FounderAndreas Papandreou
Founded3 September 1974; 50 years ago (1974-09-03)
Preceded by
HeadquartersChariláou Trikoúpi 50,
106 80 Athens
Student wingPanhellenic Combative Student Faction (ΠΑΣΠ) (universities' organization)
Panhellenic Combative Student Movement (ΠΑΜΚ) (school organization; dormant)
Youth wingPASOK Youth
Trade union wingPanhellenic Trade Union Movement of Workers (ΠΑΣΚΕ)
Membership (2022)189,000[1]
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[7]
National affiliation
European affiliationParty of European Socialists
European Parliament groupProgressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
International affiliation
Colours
  •   Dark green[a]
  •   Green[b]
Slogan"Society in the foreground"
AnthemO ílios o prásinos (The Green Sun)[8]
Parliament
30 / 300
European Parliament
3 / 21
Party flag
Website
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The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Greek: Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, romanized: Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, pronounced [paneˈlini.o sosi.alistiˈko ˈcinima]), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (/pəˈsɒk/; ΠΑΣΟΚ, pronounced [paˈsok]) is a social-democratic[2][3][4] political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was one of the two major parties in the country, along with New Democracy, its main political rival. After a decade of poor electoral outcomes, PASOK has retained its position as one of the main Greek political parties and is currently the third largest party in the Greek Parliament.

Following the collapse of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967–1974, PASOK was founded on 3 September 1974 as a socialist party.

Formerly the largest left-of-center party in Greece between 1977 and 2012, PASOK lost much of its popular support as a result of the Greek debt crisis. PASOK was the ruling party when the economic crisis began, and it negotiated the first Greek bailout package with the European troika, which necessitated harsh austerity measures.[9][10] This caused a significant loss in the party's popularity.[11][12] It was part of two coalition governments from 2011 to 2015, during which further austerity measures were taken in response to the crisis. Due to these measures and the crisis, PASOK went from being the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament with 160 seats (43.92% of the popular vote) in the 2009 election to being the smallest party with 13 seats (4.68% of the popular vote) in the January 2015 election. This decline became known as Pasokification.[13]

To halt the party's decline, Fofi Gennimata was elected as the new president of the party and formed a political alliance known as the Democratic Alignment (DISY). In the September 2015 election, DISY was the fourth most voted-for party. In 2018, PASOK merged into a new political alliance of centre-left parties, again led by Gennimata, called the Movement for Change (KINAL), becoming the third largest party in the parliament in the 2019 election. After the death of Gennimata and the election of the new Party President Nikos Androulakis, PASOK (running under the new PASOK-KINAL umbrella) improved its electoral outcome, achieving a 11.84% share of the popular vote in the June 2023 election. In October 2024, Androulakis was re-elected as president of PASOK.

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  2. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Greece". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  3. ^ a b Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G.; Passas, Argyris G. (2011), "The Panhellenic Socialist Movement and European integration: The primacy of the leader", Social democracy and European integration, Taylor & Francis, pp. 117–156, ISBN 9780203845349
  4. ^ a b Dimitri Almeida (2012). The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus. Routledge. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-415-69374-5.
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  8. ^ "Οι επίσημοι και ανεπίσημοι ύμνοι των ελληνικών κομμάτων". 29 January 2018.
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  12. ^ "Mnimónio éna chróno metá: Apodokimasía, aganáktisi, apaxíosi, anasfáleia" Μνημόνιο ένα χρόνο μετά: Αποδοκιμασία, αγανάκτηση, απαξίωση, ανασφάλεια [One Year after the Memorandum: Disapproval, Anger, Disdain, Insecurity] (in Greek). Skai Group. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
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