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The 58 Initiative

Polls Show Death Knell for PASOK

Little more than four years after winning the Prime Minister's office with 44 percent of the vote, the PASOK Socialists who are partners in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservative government are on the edge of extinction with...

Olive Tree Down: PASOK, The 58 Fall Out

Greece’s already-fractured Center-Left spun out of control into a vortex on Feb. 25 when The 58 Initiative, a collection of intellectuals and academics hoping to unify the alignment, said it would not work with the vanishing PASOK Socialists to...

PASOK, The 58, Plan Olive Tree Movement

With his once-dominant and former ruling party on the edge of extinction, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos is aligning himself with The 58 Initiative, a group of academics and intellectuals who are trying to unify the country’s fractured center-left...

The 58 Can't Decide What They Want

Greece's latest center-left political movement, dubbed The 58 Initiative because it was begun by 58 academics, intellectuals and others disenchanted with the political system, brought together a lot of admirers when it launched in Athens, but a lot of...