Quote by Konstantinos Karamanlis

"As you know, the functioning of democracy and especially of parliamentary democracy presupposes the existence of parties with [long] traditions, steadfast principles, a program, as well as a leadership inspired by a sense of responsibility. Because political parties [...] have the most decisive role in democracies. In point of fact, one can claim that it is political parties rather than governments that peoples attach to; and that a regimes fortune is more affected by the number and behavior of [its] political parties than by its formal institutional framework."

— Konstantinos Karamanlis

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Karamanlis asserted his position to a friend on the role of political parties in (European) parliamentary democracies.

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Konstantinos Karamanlis

Konstantinos Karamanlis (8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998) was a Greek politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. He was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic. A towering figure in Greek politics, his political c

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