Ex-Greek President Kostis Stefanopoulos dies at 90 (photos-video)

Former-Greek President Kostis Stefanopoulos died on Sunday night at the age of 90. He passed away at the Errikos Dunant Hospital at 11.18pm following multiple organ failure, after being admitted for treatment on November 17 with serious respiratory problems. His death has moved the Greek people who took to twitter to pay their respect to the veteran statesman, while politicians also expressed their condolences for his death. The President of the Hellenic Republic. Prokopis Pavlopoulos stressed he was a paradigm of selflessness and decency and that he always served the public interest, while Greek PM Alexis Tsipras expressed his grief underlining that he was a politician of ethos and a high vision for society. President of major opposition party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated Stefanopoulos’s path in public life would remain indelible extending his condolences to the deceased politician’s family. Kostis Stefanopoulos was born in 1926 in Patra. The son of a lawyer, he was elected multiple times as MP in his constituency of Achaia with the conservative party of ERE, his first being in 1964.. He worked as a lawyer from 1945 till 1974 when he became a member of New Democracy. Kostis Stefanopoulos served under PM Konstantinos Karamanlis holding the portfolio of various Ministries. In 1985 he left New Democracy and formed his own political party, Democratic Renewal (DIANA), which he dissolved in 1994. On March 8 1995 the Greek Parliament elected him President of the Republic, a post he was re-elected to in 2,000.e became the first President in the history of Greek politics to receive the backing of the two major parties. His general will take place at the Saint Demetrius cemetery in Psichiko on Tuesday, November 22.