Centre Union

political party in Greece

Iouliana (, "July events") describe the political and constitutional crisis in Greece centered on the resignation, on 15 July 1965, of Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and subsequent appointment, by King Constantine II, of successive prime ministers from Papandreou's own party, the Centre Union, to replace him. Defectors from the Centre Union were branded by Papandreou's sympathizers as "apostates," and describing the events as "Apostasia" (, "Apostasy") or the "Royal Coup" (). The Iouliana heralded a prolonged period of political instability, which weakened the fragile post-civil war order,