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 On [[January 7]] [[2004]] Simitis announced that he would resign as party president and would not be a candidate for prime minister in the next elections. On [[January 8]] he called elections for the position of party president to be held on [[February 8]]. He had been Prime Minister of Greece for 8 continuing years, more than anyone else since the fall of [[junta|Military dictatorship]] in 1974. He was succeeded as PASOK leader by [[Giorgos Papandreou]], who lost the [[Greek_legislative_election%2C_2004|March 7 elections]] to the opposition [[New Democracy]] party.
-Simitis is married to Daphne Arcadiou and has two daughters, Fiona and Marilena.
+He died on [[January 5]], [[2025]] at the age of 88.
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 Simitis escaped abroad in order to avoid being jailed and became a member of the Pan-Hellenic Struggle Movement (PAK), while he became a university lecturer in Germany. He returned to Athens in [[1974]] and was one of the co-founders of [[PASOK]], led by [[Andreas Papandreou]]. In [[1977]] he took up a lecturer's post at the Panteion University.
-Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed  [[Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece)]]
+Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed  [[Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece)|Minister for Agriculture]] in the first PASOK government of that year. Following the 1985 elections, in which he was elected to the Parliament, he became [[Minister for Economy (Greece)|Minister of National Economy]]; he undertook an unpopular stabilization program, trying to curb inflation and reduce deficits, but resigned his post in [[1987]] because he felt that his policies were being undermined. In [[1993]] he took over the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but in [[1995]] he again resigned from the ministry and the party's Executive Bureau after a disagreement with Prime Minister Papandreou.
 On [[January 18]], [[1996]] on the resignation of Papandreou through ill-health Simitis was elected Prime Minister, defeating [[Akis Tsochatzopoulos]] and [[Gerasimos Arsenis]] in a special election, held among the party's parliamentary team. Simitis took office on [[January 22]]. However Papandreou remained leader of PASOK for the next several months, until his death, on [[June 23]], just before a party conference would select the party's vice-president; after Papandreou's death, the conference would elect the new Party President. Simitis was elected leader of PASOK on [[June 30]], defeating [[Akis Tsochatzopoulos]]) on a policy of support for the [[European Union]].

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 Simitis escaped abroad in order to avoid being jailed and became a member of the Pan-Hellenic Struggle Movement (PAK), while he became a university lecturer in Germany. He returned to Athens in [[1974]] and was one of the co-founders of [[PASOK]], led by [[Andreas Papandreou]]. In [[1977]] he took up a lecturer's post at the Panteion University.
-Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed  [[Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece)
+Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed  [[Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece)]]
 |Minister of Agriculture]] in the first PASOK government of that year. Following the 1985 elections, in which he was elected to the Parliament, he became [[Minister for Economy (Greece)|Minister of National Economy]]; he undertook an unpopular stabilization program, trying to curb inflation and reduce deficits, but resigned his post in [[1987]] because he felt that his policies were being undermined. In [[1993]] he took over the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but in [[1995]] he again resigned from the ministry and the party's Executive Bureau after a disagreement with Prime Minister Papandreou.

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 Simitis escaped abroad in order to avoid being jailed and became a member of the Pan-Hellenic Struggle Movement (PAK), while he became a university lecturer in Germany. He returned to Athens in [[1974]] and was one of the co-founders of [[PASOK]], led by [[Andreas Papandreou]]. In [[1977]] he took up a lecturer's post at the Panteion University.
-Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed [[Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece)
+Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed  [[Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece)
 |Minister of Agriculture]] in the first PASOK government of that year. Following the 1985 elections, in which he was elected to the Parliament, he became [[Minister for Economy (Greece)|Minister of National Economy]]; he undertook an unpopular stabilization program, trying to curb inflation and reduce deficits, but resigned his post in [[1987]] because he felt that his policies were being undermined. In [[1993]] he took over the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but in [[1995]] he again resigned from the ministry and the party's Executive Bureau after a disagreement with Prime Minister Papandreou.

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 Simitis escaped abroad in order to avoid being jailed and became a member of the Pan-Hellenic Struggle Movement (PAK), while he became a university lecturer in Germany. He returned to Athens in [[1974]] and was one of the co-founders of [[PASOK]], led by [[Andreas Papandreou]]. In [[1977]] he took up a lecturer's post at the Panteion University.
-Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed Minister of Agriculture in the first PASOK government of that year. Following the 1985 elections, in which he was elected to the Parliament, he became Minister of National Economy; he undertook an unpopular stabilization program, trying to curb inflation and reduce deficits, but resigned his post in [[1987]] because he felt that his policies were being undermined. In [[1993]] he took over the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but in [[1995]] he again resigned from the ministry and the party's Executive Bureau after a disagreement with Prime Minister Papandreou.
+Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed Minister of Agriculture in the first PASOK government of that year. Following the 1985 elections, in which he was elected to the Parliament, he became [[Minister for Economy (Greece)|Minister of National Economy]]; he undertook an unpopular stabilization program, trying to curb inflation and reduce deficits, but resigned his post in [[1987]] because he felt that his policies were being undermined. In [[1993]] he took over the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but in [[1995]] he again resigned from the ministry and the party's Executive Bureau after a disagreement with Prime Minister Papandreou.
 On [[January 18]], [[1996]] on the resignation of Papandreou through ill-health Simitis was elected Prime Minister, defeating [[Akis Tsochatzopoulos]] and [[Gerasimos Arsenis]] in a special election, held among the party's parliamentary team. Simitis took office on [[January 22]]. However Papandreou remained leader of PASOK for the next several months, until his death, on [[June 23]], just before a party conference would select the party's vice-president; after Papandreou's death, the conference would elect the new Party President. Simitis was elected leader of PASOK on [[June 30]], defeating [[Akis Tsochatzopoulos]]) on a policy of support for the [[European Union]].
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 Simitis then led the party in the national elections of [[September 22]], [[1996]], gaining a mandate in his own right. He also narrowly won the national election of [[2000]]. Although he was respected throughout Europe, in Greece Simitis was regarded by some Greeks as a rather dull technocrat, lacking the charisma of Papandreou.
-Simitis's greatest achievement was overcoming nationalist opposition and severe economic difficulties to get Greece into the [[Eurozone]]. However, shortly after Simitis left office in 2004, [[New Democracy]] did a [[Greek Financial Audit, 2004| financial audit]] and went on to accuse Simitis' government, of having falsified Greece's macroeconomic statistics, on the basis of which the European institutions accepted Greece to join the Eurozone.
+Simitis's greatest achievement was overcoming nationalist opposition and severe economic difficulties to get Greece into the [[Eurozone]]. However, shortly after Simitis left office in [[2004]], [[New Democracy]] did a [[Greek Financial Audit, 2004| financial audit]] and went on to accuse Simitis' government, of having falsified Greece's macroeconomic statistics, on the basis of which the European institutions accepted Greece to join the Eurozone.
 While PASOK traditionalists disliked his move away from orthodox socialism, and also his relative moderation on issues such as the [[Cyprus]] dispute and the [[Foreign relations of the Republic of Macedonia#Naming dispute with Greece|FYROM name dispute]], his supporters saw both of these as positive elements of the 'modernization' movement that Simitis was seen as spearheading.

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+Costas Simitis was born in [[Piraeus]] to [[George Simitis]], Professor at the School of Economic and Commercial Sciences and his wife Fani Christopoulos. He studied Law at the University of Marburg in Germany and economics at the London School of Economics. In [[1965]] he returned to Greece and was one of the founders of the political research group "Alexandros Papanastasiou." In [[1967]] this group was transformed into [[Democratic Defense]], an organization opposed to the Greek military regime.
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+Simitis escaped abroad in order to avoid being jailed and became a member of the Pan-Hellenic Struggle Movement (PAK), while he became a university lecturer in Germany. He returned to Athens in [[1974]] and was one of the co-founders of [[PASOK]], led by [[Andreas Papandreou]]. In [[1977]] he took up a lecturer's post at the Panteion University.
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+Although Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981]] elections, he was nevertheless appointed Minister of Agriculture in the first PASOK government of that year. Following the 1985 elections, in which he was elected to the Parliament, he became Minister of National Economy; he undertook an unpopular stabilization program, trying to curb inflation and reduce deficits, but resigned his post in [[1987]] because he felt that his policies were being undermined. In [[1993]] he took over the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but in [[1995]] he again resigned from the ministry and the party's Executive Bureau after a disagreement with Prime Minister Papandreou.
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+On [[January 18]], [[1996]] on the resignation of Papandreou through ill-health Simitis was elected Prime Minister, defeating [[Akis Tsochatzopoulos]] and [[Gerasimos Arsenis]] in a special election, held among the party's parliamentary team. Simitis took office on [[January 22]]. However Papandreou remained leader of PASOK for the next several months, until his death, on [[June 23]], just before a party conference would select the party's vice-president; after Papandreou's death, the conference would elect the new Party President. Simitis was elected leader of PASOK on [[June 30]], defeating [[Akis Tsochatzopoulos]]) on a policy of support for the [[European Union]].
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+Simitis then led the party in the national elections of [[September 22]], [[1996]], gaining a mandate in his own right. He also narrowly won the national election of [[2000]]. Although he was respected throughout Europe, in Greece Simitis was regarded by some Greeks as a rather dull technocrat, lacking the charisma of Papandreou.
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+Simitis's greatest achievement was overcoming nationalist opposition and severe economic difficulties to get Greece into the [[Eurozone]]. However, shortly after Simitis left office in 2004, [[New Democracy]] did a [[Greek Financial Audit, 2004| financial audit]] and went on to accuse Simitis' government, of having falsified Greece's macroeconomic statistics, on the basis of which the European institutions accepted Greece to join the Eurozone.
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+While PASOK traditionalists disliked his move away from orthodox socialism, and also his relative moderation on issues such as the [[Cyprus]] dispute and the [[Foreign relations of the Republic of Macedonia#Naming dispute with Greece|FYROM name dispute]], his supporters saw both of these as positive elements of the 'modernization' movement that Simitis was seen as spearheading.
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