National Radical Union

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The National Radical Union (ERE, Greek: Εθνική Ριζοσπαστική Ένωσις, Ethnike Rizospastike Enosis) was a Greek political party formed in 1955 by Konstantinos Karamanlis out of the Greek Rally party.

ΕRΕ was a conservative, right-wing party, which comprised also some prominent centrists, such as:

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
Konstantinos Tsatsos, president of the Greek Repablic from 1975 since 1980.
Evangelos Averoff, minister of foreign affairs in Karamanlis' governments (1955-1963) and leader of ND from 1981 since 1984.

Karamanlis resigned from the leadership of ΕRΕ in 1963 after he was defeated by Georgios Papandreou and he was succeeded by Panagiotis Kanellopoulos.

Kanellopoulos remained leader of the party until 1967, when he formed a government which did not last more than a month, as it was overthrown by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. After 1967 ΕRΕ, like all political parties, was outlawed. It was never regenerated, since Karamanlis formed a new party in 1974, New Democracy.

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