PASOK
Britishacronym
Etymology
Origin of PASOK
C20: Modern Greek Pa ( nhellenion ) So ( sialistiko ) K ( enema )
Example Sentences
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The prospects of New Democracy, the center-left Syriza party or the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, teaming up in some combination to form a coalition government also is considered extremely unlikely by politicians and pundits.
From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2023
Hours after the news of her detention became public, her party, Greece’s center-left PASOK, expelled her from its ranks; the centrist Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament suspended her.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2022
Androulakis, a civil engineer, started his political career as a leader of the youth wing of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, one of the parties in the Movement for Change.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2021
Tsipras’ Syriza Party ascended to office in January amid a stalemate between Greece’s two political machines, New Democracy and PASOK, which had swapped rule over the country for the past 40 years.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2015
Several MPs from the second ruling party, Socialist PASOK, have also wavered.
From Reuters • Nov. 7, 2012
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