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Andreas Papandreou

1919–1996 · 20th century

Andreas Papandreou was a Greek economist and politician who founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in 1974, after the fall of the military junta. He was prime minister from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996, expanding the welfare state. He and Konstantinos Karamanlis's New Democracy defined the two-party politics of the Third Hellenic Republic.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Andreas Papandreou. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/andreas-papandreou
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