The prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakisa multitude of executives of PASOKbut also representatives of other parties are giving the “present” at this time to his funeral Christos Rococyll at the 1st Cemetery of Athens. Christos Rocophyllos left his last breath on May 24, at age

Christos Rokofylllos, a former PASOK minister, passed away at the age of 94 last Saturday, May 24th. His family’s request was instead of wreaths to donate to the Parents’ Association of Children with Neoplastic Disease “The Flame” and Elepap and Elepap Agrinio.

Who was Christos Rocophyllos

Christos Rokofylllos had been Deputy Minister of Industry, Deputy Foreign Minister, PASOK’s Ambassador of Aitoloakarnania, Ambassador of Greece to Paris and the Vatican, as well as the Governor of the Agricultural Bank, while he was a major lawyer.

He was born on November 19, 1931 in Amfilochia, he was married to Elsa Agathonikou, with whom he had a son Constantine and a daughter, Anna.

He had graduated from the University of Athens Law School and had a doctorate Diploma of Higher Legal Studies (DES) at the University of Sorbonne Paris.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Group “Alexandros Papanastasiou” since 1965. On April 22, 1967, the day after the enforcement of the dictatorship of the Colonels, along with S. Karagiorga, K. Simitis, M. Deloukas and other Democrats founded the “Democratic”.

In October 1967, he was first arrested by the dictatorship regime and imprisoned in the basements of Bouboulina Street. In 1969, in July, he was arrested for the second time, held three months in strict isolation and six months with other Democrats to lead to the long -standing trial of 34, when the military court sentenced him to five years in prison. During the dictatorship there was a defense lawyer in many resistance trials.

On August 31, 1974, after the collapse of the dictatorship, he was elected a member of the Democratic Defense Board of Directors, who negotiated and agreed to merge with PASOK.

In 1975, it was erased for a short time by the party. In 1977, he was elected for the first time a member of Aitoloakarnania with the PASOK ballot. From October 1981 to the summer of 1982, he served as Governor of the Agricultural Bank. In the period 1989-1993, he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. On September 24, 1990, at the 2nd PASOK Congress, he was elected a member of the Central Committee, and he was a parliamentary spokesman for the party from 1993-1994.

On April 17, 1994, at the PASOK 3rd Congress, he was re -elected a member of the Central Committee, and on July 8 of the same year, he took over as a deputy minister of industry for the first time.

On June 30, 1996, at the PASOK 4th Congress, he was re -elected member of the Movement. In 1997, he took over as head of the Greek parliamentary delegation in NATO.

In March 1999, at the 5th Congress of the Movement, he was re -elected a member of the JU and in April of the same year, he was appointed Secretary of the Foreign and Defense Department.

In July of that year, he took over as Deputy Foreign Minister -after the death of Yiannos Kranidiotis -until April 2000. On October 7, 2000, he resigned as a member of the PASOK Central Committee.