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The Greek legislative election of the 19 February 1956 resulted in victory for Constantine Karamanlis and his National Radical Union party. In 1955 was chosen by the King Paul I as successor of prime minister General Alexandros Papagos , who had just died. This controversial decision of the King (Karamanlis was not a leading member of Papagos' party) caused the vehement reactions of the two most prominent members of the Greek Rally party, Stefanos Stefanopoulos and Panagiotis Kanellopoulos . Nevertheless, Constantine Karamanlis thanks to the support of the royal family and thanks to his own dextrous handlings managed to impose himself as a strong leader. After having stabilised his leadership, he dissolved the Greek Rally and created his own conservative right-wing party, the National Radical Union , which also comprised some prominent centrists ( Evangelos Averof , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Konstantinos Tsatsos ) and dominated during the next 8 years in the political scene Greece . The National Radical Union won thanks to the controversial electoral system, passed by Karamanlis, which did not favor the political alliances. As a result, the Democratic Union took more votes, but lost the elections, because the National Radical Union was the biggest single party. The Democratic Union comprised:
Hence, the non-coherent political alliance of the Democratic Union lost the elections, although it achieved a slim majority of votes. A few years later, Georgios Papandreou and Sophoklis Venizelos denounced their alliance with EDA . |
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