He served in many ministerial positions, including Minister for Justice ( 1958 ) and vice-president of New Democracy under Konstantinos Karamanlis ( 1975-1976 ).

In 1985 after President Constantine Karamanlis resigned, Alevras served as acting President, per the relevant provisions of the Constitution of Greece, causing a controversy over the matter whether his duties as Speaker should be suspended during his tenure as acting President ( 10 – 30 March 1985 ) and if he was eligible to vote in the election of the new President.

Under the first premiership of Karamanlis ( 1955-1963 ) he served for many years as Minister of Public Administration.

In the March 2004 elections, PASOK was defeated by New Democracy, led by Kostas Karamanlis, the nephew of the former President.

Tufts alumni in the government sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece ; Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Minister ; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts ; Bill Richardson, Democratic Governor of New Mexico ; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United States Representative from Oregon.

Following Karamanlis ' resounding victory in the November 1974 parliamentary elections ( his New Democracy party won 54. 4 % of the vote ), he called for a referendum ( for 8 December 1974 ) on whether Greece would restore the monarchy or remain a republic without reference to the illegal republic still in place appointed by the military junta.

The role of the whip is usually exercised by the party leader but Kostas Karamanlis, the Prime Minister from 2004 to 2009 and former leader of the New Democracy party, mostly used Giannis Tragakis, General Secretary of his party parliamentary group, as a whip.

Until November 2008, New Democracy, Karamanlis ' party, had 152 MPs out of 300.

When Petros Tatoulis, MP for Arcadia Prefecture, stated that Karamanlis was guilty of a few political scandals, Karamanlis immediately expelled him from both the parliamentary group and the party, as a result giving New Democracy a majority of only one seat.

In the 2007 general election, PASOK again lost to the incumbent New Democracy party of Kostas Karamanlis and Papandreou ’ s leadership was challenged by Evangelos Venizelos and Kostas Skandalidis.

Despite Papandreou's personal popularity, PASOK lost the March 7 elections to the conservative New Democracy party, whose leader Kostas Karamanlis succeeded Simitis in the office of Prime Minister.

At the November 1974 elections the Party received only 13. 5 % of the vote and won 15 seats ( out of 300 ), coming third behind the center-right New Democracy Party of Konstantinos Karamanlis and the centrist Center Union-New Forces of Georgios Mavros.

The party members were expecting that Papandreou could reverse the slide in the opinion polls which saw the opposition New Democracy ( ND ) Party, under Kostas Karamanlis, 7 % ahead at the start of the year.

Konstantinos Alexandrou Karamanlis, known as Kostas Karamanlis (,, ; born 14 September 1956 ) is a former Prime Minister of Greece and former president of the right-conservative New Democracy party, founded by his uncle Konstantinos Karamanlis.

On 5 October 2009, Karamanlis conceded defeat in the Greek legislative election and resigned as president of the New Democracy party after 12 years as its leader, after an election victory for the opposition PASOK.

Karamanlis was elected a New Democracy deputy for Thessaloniki in 1989, but in 2004 he was elected for Larissa.

The New Democracy government under Karamanlis, elected on April of that year, decided to conduct a Financial Audit of the Greek economy, before sending revised data to Eurostat.

In the 2009 general election, Karamanlis and New Democracy were voted out of the government.

After he left office, many in Greece continued to blame the New Democracy governments of Karamanlis for economic difficulties, and both financial markets and Greece's EU partners chastised the country for vastly underestimated budget deficits under his watch

When Karamanlis retired in 1980, Rallis was elected leader of the New Democracy party and succeeded Karamanlis as Prime Minister.

When democracy was restored in 1974, Tzannetakis joined the New Democracy party of Constantine Karamanlis.

In September 1997 she was appointed by New Democracy leader Kostas Karamanlis in the party's Department for Development and as Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence in May 2000.

On 29 March 2002, Bakoyannis was picked to run for Mayor of Athens in the 2002 local elections, both a choice of Kostas Karamanlis who was looking for a way to demonstrate New Democracy's growing strength against the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement and a chance for Bakoyannis to earn prestige by this office in advance of the city hosting the Olympic games.

In July 1974, the events in Cyprus led to the downfall of the military regime, and Karamanlis returned from exile to become prime minister.

Outstanding Greek public figures in the 20th century include Cretan-born Eleutherios Venizelos, prominent statesman of the interwar period ; Ioannis Metaxas, dictator from 1936 until his death ; Constantine Karamanlis, prime minister ( 1955 – 63, 1974 – 80 ) and president ( 1980 – 85 ) of Greece ; George Papandreou, head of the Center Union Party and prime minister ( 1963 – 65 ); and his son Andreas Papandreou, the PASOK leader who became prime minister in 1981.

He also alleged that he had pressured Karamanlis and Makris to grant amnesty and release him from prison.

Karamanlis rejected the claims as unsubstantiated and absurd, and accused Merten of attempting to extort money from him prior to making the statements.

Karamanlis was convinced that Greece's membership in the EEC would ensure political stability in a nation having just undergone a transition from dictatorship to Democracy.

Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis was the main architect of this plan, which led to an immediate improvement of relations with Turkey, particularly once Adnan Menderes was removed from power in Turkey.

A worse blow came in May 2004, when the European Commission harshly accused Greece of " imprudent " and " sloppy " fiscal policies, pointing out that since Greek economic growth had been an annual 4 % in 2000 – 2003, a declining fiscal position could only be the result of government mismanagement, including concerns by the EU regarding the 103 % public debt to GDP ratio which Karamanlis inherited from the previous PASOK regime.

Karamanlis was largely elected in 2004 due to his plea to " clear " public life from corruption.

He is also mimicking sports personas from Greece. Such persons are Giorgos Georgiou, Kostas Karamanlis, Vassilios Tsiartas, Giorgos Karagounis, Nikos Alefantos, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Dusan Bajevic, Sakis Rouvas, Vassilis Leventis, Antonios Nikopolidis, Sotiris Ninis, Adonis Georgiades, etc.

This attributed-by OAKKE-to the relationship of the leaders of the so-called " KKE " and SYN from 1956 on, and of the prime ministers Andreas Papandreou and Costas Simitis, Kostas Karamanlis and George Papandreou with Russian social-imperialism.

In 2001, the conservative New Democracy party was suffering from many internal problems, notably the continuous conflict between its president Costas Karamanlis and the former Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis, and its opposition to the government of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( PASOK ) seemed ineffective.

During the terms of office of Constantine Karamanlis as Greek president from 1980 to 1985 and 1990 to 1995, he was secretary general of the Presidential office.

Karamanlis returned from Paris and formed his civilian Government.

* 1974 – Konstantinos Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.

* 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

* 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.

In 1974, Stephanopoulos was appointed Deputy Minister of Commerce in the National Unity government of Constantine Karamanlis.

After the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1974, Constantine Karamanlis legalised the KKE hoping to reclaim " a vital part of national memory ".

From 1974 to 1980, Molyviatis was diplomatic advisor and director general of the political cabinet of Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis.

Karamanlis ' new party, New Democracy, won the November 1974 general election, and he remained prime minister.

In July 1974 he was one of the politicians who brokered the end of the Regime of the Colonels and the appointment of Constantine Karamanlis as Prime Minister.

While the Venizelist legacy was still popular, election results were disappointing as the abolition of the monarchy, the dilution of support for Greek nationalism after the seven years of the junta and the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and Karamanlis ' move towards the political center had blurred the differences between the liberals and their former conservative opponents, while the socialist PASOK party was gaining support at the left side of the spectrum.