Kostas Simitis / The previous high minister has kicked the bucket

He kicked the bucket in outdated age 88 years outdated the baby-kisser and previous high minister Kostas Simitiswithin the early hours of Sunday (05/01).

He was once one of the crucial founding contributors of PASOK and served high minister of the rustic for 2 consecutive phrases.

THE Kostas Simitis he was once at his vacation house in Agioi Theodorou and was once taken and not using a pulse to the Corinth clinic at 07.30, the place regardless of resuscitation efforts he didn’t get well.

“He was once transported by way of EKAV ambulance from Agioi Theodorou with out being mindful. A resuscitation try was once made however was once unsuccessful. At roughly 07.50 his loss of life was once showed”, mentioned the director of the Corinth clinic, Grigoris Karpouzis, talking at the morning display of OPEN.

In line with the primary knowledge, the previous high minister was once now not going through any explicit well being drawback.

Who was once Kostas Simitis?

THE Kostas Simitis was once born on June 23, 1936 in Piraeus. He studied legislation and economics in Germany and England. He started his instructional occupation as a Physician of Regulation on the College of Marburg in 1959. In 1965 he spearheaded the established order of the “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Team. He taught as a lecturer on the College of Konstanz in 1971 after fleeing in a foreign country all through the dictatorship and as a complete professor of Civil Regulation on the College of Giessen. In 1977 he was once elected complete professor on the Panteion College of Athens.

He actively participated within the anti-dictatorship battle (1967-1974) and after the arrest of Sakis Karagiorgas, with whom he was once participating, in 1969 he fled in a foreign country illegally. He was once sentenced in absentia to jail. In retaliation, his spouse Dafni was once arrested and stored in solitary confinement for 2 months.

From 1970 he participated in Panhellenic Liberation Motion (PAK) as a member of its Nationwide Council. It was once founding member of PASOKcollaborated within the formula of the “Declaration of September 3, 1974” and took part within the first central committee and the primary government place of business of the motion.

When PASOK took energy served as Minister of Agriculture (1981-1985), Minister of Nationwide Financial system (1985-1987) and Minister of Business and Business (1993-1995). In 1985 he was once elected for the primary time as a Member of Parliament for Piraeus. In 1989 he served as Minister of Training within the ecumenical executive of Xenophon Zolotas.

On On January 18, 1996, he succeeded Andreas Papandreou as Top Minister after a vote of the Parliamentary Team of PASOK representing the “modernizing” pole of energy with the principle function “the monetary reform of the Greek financial system and the social convergence of Greek society with “robust” Europe”.

On June 30, 1996a couple of days after the loss of life of Andreas Papandreou, Kostas Simitis was once elected president of PASOK on the 4th Congress of the birthday party, a place he held till February 8, 2004 when he was once succeeded by way of Giorgos Papandreou.

Re-elected high minister within the September 1996 and April 2000 elections.

It was once married with the Dafni Simitis with whom he had two daughters, Fiona and Marilena.

His major works: The structural opposition (1979), Theses at the political technique of the Panhellenic Socialist Motion (1980), For a powerful society, for a powerful Greece (1995), For a powerful Greece (3rd quantity, 2002), Politics for an artistic Greece 1996- 2004 (2005). He has additionally written: Gute Sitten und Ordre Public (1959), Patent Regulation (1967 and 2nd version 1999), Verbraucherschutz, Schlagwort oder Rechtsprinzip? (1976).