Constantine Karamanlis

Constantine (Konstantinos) Karamanlis (Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής) (March 8, 1907 - April 23, 1998) was a Greek politician.

Legacy

Karamanlis retired in 1995, at the age of 88, having won 5 parliamentary elections, and having spent 14 years as Prime Minister, 10 years as President of the Republic, and a total of more than sixty years in active politics. For his long service to democracy and the European cause Karamanlis was awarded the Karlspreis in 1978. He died after a short illness in 1998, at the age of 91. He bequeathed his archives to the "Constantine Karamanlis Foundation", a conservative think tank he had founded and endowed.

Related Topics:
Karlspreis - 1978 - Think tank

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His nephew Costas Caramanlis is now the leader of the New Democracy party, and Prime Minister as of March 7, 2004.

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