The former prime minister was taken to the hospital of Corinth at 7.30 am on Sunday, unconscious and despite resuscitation efforts, he could not be saved
He died at the age of 88 Kostas Simitis.
The former prime minister was admitted at 7.30 Sunday morning, in the hospital of Corinth, unconscious.
According to the commander of the hospital, Grigoris Karpouzis, an attempt was made to resuscitate him, without result, and the doctors declared his death.
Kostas Simitis was born in Piraeus, on June 23, 1936.
He was a university professor and politician. He was president of PASOK from June 1996 to February 8, 2004 and prime minister from January 18, 1996 to March 10, 2004.
After the fall of the junta in 1974, he was one of the founders of PASOK and held several ministerial positions when his party came to power.
On January 18, 1996, he succeeded Andreas Papandreou as Prime Minister after a vote by the Parliamentary Group of PASOK, representing the “modernizing” pole of power with the main objective of the economic reform of the Greek economy and the social convergence of Greek society with “powerful” Europe.
On June 30, 1996, a few days after the death of Andreas Papandreou, Kostas Simitis was elected president of PASOK at the party’s 4th Congress. He was re-elected prime minister after winning the September 1996 and April 2000 elections.
As prime minister, he promoted a moderate foreign policy at the same time as the gradual privatization of the large Greek public sector, aiming for economic stability in accordance with the policies of the European Union.
As president of PASOK, he de-radicalized the party’s discourse by advancing the country’s path towards European integration in the context of globalization.
His second term was accompanied by the implementation of austerity measures, with the aim of reducing inflation and the national debt, as well as efforts to resolve the Greek-Turkish differences over the Cyprus problem in the field of foreign policy.
Among its most important successes is Greece’s accession to the Economic and Monetary Union in 2001.
Source: Skai
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