Centre Union – New Forces ( EK-ND , Greek : Ένωσις Κέντρου-Νέες Δυνάμεις (Ε.Κ. – Ν.Δ.), Enosi Kentrou-Nees Dynameis ) was the continuation of the Centre Union party of George Papandreou after the military junta . It was the merger of a Centre Union fraction led by Georgios Mavros and the Movement of New Political Forces (KNPD).
6-806: In the elections of 1974 , the party became the second largest of the country, after the conservative New Democracy . It obtained about 20% of the vote and 60 seats in the Hellenic Parliament . On February 5, 1976, the Centre Union – New Forces merged into the Union of the Democratic Centre led by veteran centrist politician George Zigdis . Their program for the elections of 1974 did not differ significantly from that of New Democracy; it included slogans concerning " participatory democracy ", "checks imposed on capital (Greek or foreign) by
12-466: The anti-royalist center parties of a popular cause and an issue which had defined their identity. This article about a Greek political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1974 Greek legislative election Konstantinos Karamanlis ND Konstantinos Karamanlis ND Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 17 November 1974. They were the first after
18-464: The end of the military junta of 1967–1974, and took place during the metapolitefsi era. The winner was Konstantinos Karamanlis and his newly formed conservative party, New Democracy . Karamanlis had already formed a government of national unity just after the fall of the dictatorship. The second-largest party was the centrist Center Union – New Forces . The third party in the Parliament became
24-475: The newly formed PASOK , a radical socialist party led by Andreas Papandreou , son of the former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou . The members of the Hellenic Parliament were elected via open list proportional representation in 56 multi-member constituencies using the Hagenbach-Bischoff system . Additionally, 5% of seats (in this case, 12) were reserved for "state deputies" nominated by
30-470: The parties, who neither belonged to a particular constituency nor competed for election. These seats were allocated proportionally between the parties. These were the priorities of the Karamanlis's government: The new government decided on a referendum on retaining the republic , which was held on 8 December 1974. In 1975 Konstantinos Tsatsos , a close friend of Karamanlis, was elected President of
36-475: The people", and so on. With the death of the old centrist leader George Papandreou in 1968, who achieved massive support for his centre party Center Union before the coup , and the creation by Andreas Papandreou of socialist PASOK , the old center had lost its appeal to both new and old voters. Also, the abolition of the Greek monarchy in 1974, through a referendum proclaimed by Constantine Karamanlis , deprived
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