318. Editorial Note
Prime Minister Karamanlis resigned on September 20. King Paul appointed a “service government” under General Constantine Dovas to conduct new elections. The elections were contested by three major political parties: Karamanlis’ National Radical Union (ERE); the Communist-dominated Union of the Democratic Left (EDA); and a new center left party, the Center Union (KD), led by former Prime Minister George Papandreou, and formed through a merger of a number of smaller parties. The Dovas government called for elections on October 29.