THE ELECTIONS since the war, headed by the Progressive Party headed by Markezinis, of a fascisizing
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL Greece
The 28th government formed Karamanlis, resigned as a result of a "rebellion" by two of its ministers and some 13 deputies who backed them up. The Palace named its own man, Georgacopoulos, to form a new ministry entrusted with organizing general elections in May.
This cabinet crisis was not the direct result of any movement by the masses. They are deeply discontented but also deeply disorganized and disoriented by Stalinist policy. The crisis was due rather to inter-capitalist quarrels, frictions, and manœuvres which broke out on the occasion of discussion about "strengthened proportional" election law prepared by Karamanlis.
This draft-law was aimed at guaranteeing the two "big" parties
• the present parliament — the radical National Union aramanlis, and the Liberals of Venizelos. — three-quarters the seats in the new parliament, even if these parties together received only 40 %
• face up to this danger, the "little" parties came out i vor of an electoral alliance which wa to extend from the EDA, the legal camouflage of the Greek Communist Party, to
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Herein lies the tragedy of the situation.
In the 1956 elections, the EDA had allied itself with the Liberals and the capitalist formations whose leaders were among the most discredited with the masses. It was to a large extent thanks to the support of the EDA that those parties and men enjoyed a sort of "second youth." Needless to say, they kept none of their demagogic election promises, on the basis of which the EDA had instructed the masses to vote for its alliance with these parties.
This time, the EDA wanted to repeat the same treachery, including with Markezinis, who, whether in his own interests or by demagogy, declared that he was in favor of the smple proportional," and of a policy of "national independence," and against launching ramps in Greece. But at the last minute, Markezinis having insisted too much on the necessity of keeping Greece in the NATO, the alliance planned by the EDA could not be conclu ed.
The Greek Trotskyists will vote for candidates who a clusively of the EDA, as an indication — however deformed -of a class vote.
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