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PASOK: On the night of Sunday, October 18, 1981, post-revolutionary Greece turned the page and entered a new environment that brought radical changes, mainly in society and secondarily in issues of democratization of society.
The Berkeley professor who was adored but also accused as much as anyone else came to power with an overwhelming 48% percentage and with the basic slogans “Change” and “PASOK in government, people in power.”
Slogans that he captured from the widest area on the left and achieved as a point to make them come true. He was energetically accused of appropriating the slogans of the left, but no one can deny that Andreas Papandreou gave, at least in the first four years, flesh and blood to the values that the people yearned for: “National Independence – Popular Sovereignty – Social Liberation” .
Along with the above and given that in the first years within PASOK people from the Marxist left were found, it can be safely concluded that looking back at 39 years, the “first time he left” arrived early on the morning of Monday 19 October 1981..
Later, things may have turned out completely different, at least in economic terms, as PASOK failed to stabilize the country on a healthy economic model.
However, it is difficult to dispute the fact that the complete democratization of society occurred in 1981 with the legislative interventions of Andreas Papandreou that overcame the harsh taboos of Greek society.
Interventions that contributed to the dismemberment of the State, which proceeded to national reconciliation, moving away from divisive tendencies and divisive syndromes.
Andreas of the early years was never a leftist in the strict sense of the word. It was something else. You can also call it a socialist, by no means a leftist.
However, he even broke with himself, as he often opposed the great powers, but also America, even though he was American.
PASOK’s basic interventions immediately after taking power brought a breath of fresh air to Change.
- Delete safe folders
- He recognized the national resistance and gave a pension to the resistance.
- He instituted civil marriage with Law 1329 approved in 1983
- Legalize abortions
- Decriminalize adultery
- He instituted the right to equal pay for equal work for men and women.
- Introduced the vote at age 18
- Build the infrastructure of the National Health System
- He ensured the right to unionism with Law 1264/82 for the operation of the union and labor movement.
- Institutionalized asylum and circulation of ideas in universities
- He introduced the monotonous system and at the same time abolished the apron in schools.
For many of the above there was a break both with the opposition and, of course, with the Church. But it is absolutely true that the majority were ardent wishes of the left parties and voters.
39 years later, looking at history calmly, it is concluded that Papandreou not only encountered a wave of anger and rode it.
He himself went ahead and built a Movement that he led … A Movement that leaned on the spirit of the people and was basically connected to their personality and the meaning of the word “Change.”
In practice, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the “First Time Left” ruled in 1981, but remained there.
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