April 24, 2024

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Fofi Gennimata passed away

The death of the prominent politician Ms. Fofi Gennimat was officially announced by the Greek authorities.

The politician died this morning, October 25, after a two-week hospitalization at Evangelism due to liver failure. Fofi Gennimata has bravely fought cancer for the second time, but recently her health has deteriorated rapidly. On October 12, she was admitted to the Evangelismos clinic with a relapse of the underlying disease.

Speaker of the Parliament Kostas Tassoulas has already been informed about the incident in order to begin the procedure for suspending parliamentary checks.

Fofi Gennimata. Wikipedia Help

Lived: November 17, 1964 – October 25, 2021 She has been President of the Movement for Change (Κινήματος Αλλαγής) since 2017 and President of PASOK since 2015. She has been a Member of Parliament for the B3 Constituency of Athens since 2015. Leader of the Democratic Alliance (Δημοκρατικής Συμπαράταξης) in 2015-2019 and Elia – Democratic Party (Ελιάς – Δημοκρατικής Παράταξης) in 2014-2019.

In 2003-2007 she worked as Deputy Mayor of Athens-Piraeus, Deputy Minister of Health and Social Solidarity (2009-2010) in the government of PASOK Georgios Papandreou, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (2011-2012), Deputy Minister of National Defense (2013-2015) in ND-PASOK of the DIMAR government of Antonis Samaras.





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