KKE/New Democracy coalition gov't in 1989?

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I've read that the KKE (along with their Eurocommunist split, the KKE Interior wich became Synapismos) was briefly in a coalition government with the conservative New Democracy party in 1989?

Why was this, what was behind this? I'm not asking this to bash the KKE but to seek clarification.

I PASOK (which seems to have followed a similar trajectory as the PT, the Brazilian Worker's Party) became embroiled in a massive corruption scandal at that time.Was this the reason for the KKE's decision?

[Towarzysz Leninski]

The source of such an action of the KKE lies in the fact that it has a long history of opportunism and incorrect maneuvers. What could possibly explain their coalition with New Democracy in 1989 is that their program is essentially a perversion of the Marxist-Leninist program for colonial bourgeois revolutions, or the "national-democratic" revolution in which the proletariat is permitted to go into coalition with "nationalist-bourgeois" and other bourgeois parties and potentially revolutionary forces for the sake of mobilizing the most amount of forces objectively possible (as long as the independence of the proletariat is not hindered) to complete the national independence struggle / bourgeois revolution, upon which completing the proletariat pushes aside the bourgeois parties and struggles against them to bring about the socialist revolution.

The KKE, ignoring the fact that Greece is NOT a country that is on the verge of a "national-democratic" / "colonial-bourgeois" revolution but is rather one on the verge of a socialist revolution, continually tries to unite with bourgeois parties and other "revolutionary, patriotic forces", etc.

In doing so, not only is the KKE being opportunist in perverting the Marxist-Leninist colonial program and applying it to Greece, which is incorrect, but it is also hindering the advance of the Greek proletariat and toiling masses by focusing on coalition work rather than on socialist revolution.

This is not to say, however, that the KKE does not vacillate from this position - they are known for their zig zagging - but their overall history since the Greek partisan struggle of the mid 20th century has been one of opportunism and mistaken perversion of Marxism-Leninism in strategy, program, and tactics, and I think that such a move in 1989 was an unsurprising one on the part of the KKE given its tendency to make such incorrect maneuvers.