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The main interwar conservative party was called the People's Party ( PP ), which supported constitutional monarchy and opposed the republican Liberal Party.

It was able to re-group after the Second World War as part of a United Nationalist Front which achieved power campaigning on a simple anticommunist, ultranationalist platform.

However, the vote received by the PP declined, leading them to create an expanded party, the Greek Rally, under the leadership of the charismatic General Alexandros Papagos.

The conservatives opposed the far right dictatorship of the colonels ( 1967 – 1974 ) and established the New Democratic Party following the fall of the dictatorship.

The new party had four objectives: to confront Turkish expansionism in Cyprus, to reestablish and solidify democratic rule, to give the country a strong government, and to make a powerful moderate party a force in Greek politics.