I think what you and Kostis are disagreeing about is the extent to which the patronage network which PASOK represents is still operative, or even dormant, rather than having been destroyed beyond repair.

Part of the point is that alternative political parties need to be part of a patronage network or they will be a bubble. After one or two election cycles they will fizzle out and whatever's left of the old PASOK network will pick up where PASOK left off in 2009.

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