The fundamental parameters of contemporary Greek politics were shaped in the post-1974 period known as the Metapolitefsi (Μεταπολίτευση, Regime Change). The collapse of the seven-year military junta was followed in short order by the abolition of the monarchy, the legalisation of the Communist Party and the establishment of the two main pillars of the party system that still operates today. The ideological map of today's Greek parties, the basic patterns of voter behaviour an