DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS GREECE’S EMBATTLED CENTRE How the Leftwing opposition line up Nikos Konstandaras Despite the seismic changes in Greece’s political scene, the Centre remains large and decisive in determining elections. The opposition parties SYRIZA and PASOK are competing for the same reservoir of voters in the Centre-Left and Centre. SYRIZA’s challenge is to adapt in order to contain voters from the Centre-Left and Centre who supported it in previous years. PASOK is in a struggle to survive and has chosen to be absorbed by an alliance, the Movement for Change, that it created. New Democracy does not appear to face any threats from the Right or in the Centre-Right, whereas SYRIZA is competing with PASOK, Yanis Varoufakis’s MeRA25 and the Communist Party of Greece.