PASOK’s second chance

Given the different protagonists and characteristics of the two given times, it would seem somewhat excessive to draw similarities between PASOK's heyday in 1981, when it gained such widespread popularity with its pledges for change, and the realistic possibility of the socialist party reclaiming its position in second place as the main contender for power against New Democracy today because of SYRIZA's disintegration.

But, because things have a tendency to shrink as the decades go by, things like personalities and the historical stakes, the party founded by Andreas Papandreou with the promise of "national independence, popular rule and social justice" is now faced with a massive opportunity, its second big chance.

The waning popularity of Kyriakos Mitsotakis' government stemming from its failure to live up to expectations that it would address the problems of people...