Tassos Anastassiadis our vears of ausdoes not seem to have been ness-wise, Greek workers to get rid of the social-demo. cratic government (PASOK) in the country's recent elecmachine. PASOK - which has been the in government for more increase from 41.5% at the General Mlection four years reflected go and 33% in last ycal s furoelections last year to 44 Peris was because for many round. Simitis people the key issue was to revent the return of the right. But it was only just sufficient for that: For the first time, New Democracy, the major Greek capitalist party, the influx united all the right (liberals and populists), with the considered exception or two small far right groups that only scraped up a few thousand votes.
New Democracy tried to capitalise on the social discontent that has been grow ing against neo-liberal policies of PASOK. They ust one percentage less than PASOK (43% this time from 38% four years ago and 36% last year).
left continues attract the majority of the (55%). In a electoral body bride sense WeReOC PASOK, the governmental because of its relationship party, of the with the political division right-left which is the cornice expression of class divisions remains constantly polarised to the left.
But it is almost exclusively PASOK that has benefited from this polarisation so far.
of Greece (KKE), which had reached nearly so last year in toc baro saw its percentage reduced to 3.3% even less than it was four years ago.
Coalition Synaspismos (a coalition of progressive and Euro-comfared badly. It lost a great number of votes (3.2%, while it had 5.1% four years ago) and just alliances managed enter parlia because of a coalition with part of the far left and an Spate in ecology party.
DIKKI, a party which was formed from the left wing of the rAsuk didn't caca tac necessary 3% for representaparliament The three organizations of the far cratic left which were represented Maoist plus a splinter group of KKE managed only a total of 20.000 votes.
The programs of PASOK and ND Both integration of Greece in the and monetary union and the austerity policies that flow from the Stability Pact A modernist fraction of the bourgeoisie wants the oppor the Pouchase Balkans and lurkey 0usiwhich presupnoses the use of the Greek state machine for cconomic and ideological support and La pontacal or This division of strategy in (nationalists versus modCONSCIE recent Greek politics and is within both main parties.
Prime Minister has been rather effective in manakink direction. ND may be more risky, as it could be more sensitive to pressures from the far right.
One of the central themes of the camp of immigrans, immigrants, a necessary workforce by a great number of employers in the cities and the countryside.
The new PASOK government will find it difficult to carry through its austerity policies - which was one of Roo yvers on, Gerry Adams and co are still looking so Blair to deliver, schile the British suck mainly so placate the uniomints