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Nikos Androulakis has won the runoff for the leadership of the socialist PASOK party, with nearly 60% of the vote.

Androulakis' rival, Athens mayor Haris Doukas, called to congratulate him before the results were finalized Sunday night.

According to the final results, Androul;akis got 125,820 votes, or 59.92% of the valid ballots. Doukas got 84,149 (40.08%).

Agiris (Akis) Maltsidis, the anti-dictatorship fighter Argiris (Akis) Maltsidis, passed away today at the age of 92.

He was born in 1932 in Thessaloniki and studied Civil Engineering at the AUTH.

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