Tasos Giannitsis: Kostas Simitis was once an ideal statesman

An excessively elementary high quality that I might acknowledge in him was once that he was once destined to take the rustic upper, underlined former minister Tasos Giannitsis about Kostas Simitis, with whom he had a 50-year friendship

Mr. Giannitsis, talking at the First Program, underlined that “when within the 60s he shaped the Papanastasi crew, he was once related to the gang of Angelos Angelopoulos and the New Economic system which on the time expressed a strongly important mirrored image at the problems with the economic system and politics within the nation, in proceeding with the dictatorship and most of these acquainted issues that we all know after which with PASOK, with such a lot of tensions, with such a lot of conflicts and with such a lot of disappointments even successes, it way that he’s a person who has set himself to take his nation upper and past, without reference to the political value, he undertakes it and takes it so far as he can. And I believe that is what he did.”

Tasos Giannitsis added that “I will be able to now not deny that we had so much in commonplace with Konstantinos Simitis in tastes, in books, in tune, in cinema, the place shall we revel in going one night time, one afternoon to consume, in artwork, in archaeologically, in historical past, in many stuff. And naturally what’s much more vital is how one translates the issues and issues round him and the tendencies. And this implies a chemistry that, with out being an identical, nonetheless offers the likelihood to tie an increasing number of a dating and if truth be told goodbye that it went thru such a lot of levels, pleasant section, skilled, political section, pleasant section once more, far away from the remaining ones years, from the positions he and I have been in”.

“He gave every other breath, every other power, every other dynamic to this nation”

Consistent with Mr. Giannitsi Kostas Simitis was once an ideal statesman.

As mentioned via Mr. Giannitsis “as a result of he put the hobby, what he believed in, the hobby of his nation, the hobby of society above his non-public hobby, which he may just smartly have mentioned, what do I care about this stuff, why will have to I care for them, let’s do my activity, I’m a Professor at Panteio. He himself by no means pursued ordinary issues within the box of politics and due to this fact one can’t doubt in anyway his selflessness and his contribution to the advance of Greece all this time. I might say that the largest fulfillment is that he took over a rustic in 1996, which was once in an overly problematic state of affairs, Andreas Papandreou had already began to make corrective strikes since 1993 when he took over the federal government once more however the principle factor came about all through Simitis, from 96 onwards. And it was once that he gave every other breath, every other power, every other dynamic to this nation.”

He emphasised that “any further I will be able to after all speak about Cyprus. After all I will be able to say concerning the EMU. After all I will be able to say concerning the very huge initiatives, which tens of millions have used and been glad with from the metro, from the highways, from the Rio Antirrio, from a number of huge initiatives that have been finished all through Simitis. Possibly I am forgetting any other issues at the moment. The Olympic Video games he ready, a undertaking that was once in his arms, he was once now not the one that initiated the method for the Olympics, it was once in his arms, however he carried it out effectively as a result of he knew that the honour of the rustic was once at stake round it the topic.

Consistent with him, “the topic of the presidency of the Eu Union in 2003 which coincided with colossal problems such because the American invasion of Iraq and controlled to search out compromise answers within the Eu Union in order that the UN government would be triumphant in opposition to the unilateral invasion of Iraq and that there will have to be counterweights to the belligerent voice of the nations that sought after the invasion. And he controlled to get the entire leaders, colossal leaders at the moment, to congratulate him so warmly that I doubt if every other top minister has gathered so vastly and for such severe problems from our nation.”

“Kostas Simitis was once a person who didn’t alternate his conduct in any respect”

Tasos Giannitsis added that “he was once a easy, quite simple guy in his conduct. I might say that within the 50 years that I knew him, he was once a person who didn’t alternate his conduct in any respect, without reference to the positions he took, he may just simply transfer from the most simple issues to essentially the most difficult ones, imposed via his place itself and its status”.

Certainly, his unexpected loss was once a surprise, the previous minister stressed out. He after all emphasised that “I might say as I take into consideration it, the person left with out struggling and with out being humiliated and that is one thing that anybody who understands would need for himself. That there was once not anything is apparent. He would not move house to St. Theodore’s if there was once one thing medically relating to him. They went there, loved the night, from what I perceive, the circle of relatives amongst themselves, after which this got here. Surprise, actually surprise, however on the identical time with an aspect that are meant to now not be underestimated,” he mentioned characteristically.