Kostas Simitis: Modernist until the end – Last hailed former Prime Minister

PASOK will say goodbye today to its former president who ruled Greece from 1996 to 2004 and who passed in history for his intention to modernize the country. As of 10.50, his family, his relatives and friends Kostas Simitis, executives from PASOK and the whole political world will be found in the Athens Metropolis. The President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of PASOK, Nikos Androulakis, and three personal friends, former Minister and University Officer, Tasos Giannitis and the Professors of Emeritus, Konstantinos Tsukalas and Giannis Voulgaris. Yesterday (08/01/25) at a special meeting the latest details on the burial were settled. The body of the former prime minister and president of PASOK is expected to arrive in Metropolis at 11:00, an hour before the exodus sequence begins, in which Archbishop Jerome will dance. CORVERSE The transfer of the body will be carried out by hearse rather than by Kilivada, as the deceased’s family wishes his burial to be simple, without exaggeration. The hearse will be followed by two cars with his family members. The former Prime Minister will be buried in A cemetery next to Andreas Papandreou and very close to Melina Mercouri. Condres continued the issue that started with what Aphrodite Latinopoulou said offensively about Kostas Simitis. PASOK spokesperson Kostas Tsukalas was drafted with the line Geroulanos that they should not pay any attention to what the head of Voice of Reason said, while even Adonis Georgiades did not escape his arrows despite the fact that the Minister of Health responded fiercely to Venus Latinopoulou. “I am pleased that New Democracy officials like Mrs. Vultesis say that Mrs. Latinopoulou is Le Pen’s relative party and I agree. Of course, there are officials in New Democracy and leading ministers, who have said they have a historical relationship with Le Pen’s party, such as Mr. Voridis,” he initially said. She also described “a joke just to talk about Mrs Latinopoulou. It’s amenomepis only commenting on Kostas Simitis. Its purpose is the few minutes of publicity. He went to pet some far-right common in a diagonism, which makes with other parties of the far right and with a part of the New Republic and does not hesitate with a rhetorical fascist and defaming to insult the memory of the late.” “Kostas Simitis,” said PASOK’s spokesman, “was a politician who fought for a Greece of confidence, while Mrs. Latinopoulou supports a Greece of isolation. So the cultural and political dividing line, which exists, is huge. What he is saying, therefore, we regard it as unworthy of speech and we do not want to value it, because in addition to being condemned they are also ostensibly.” At the same time, the Spokesman recalled that “I remember Mr Georgiades in LA.O.S. in 2004, who had an unimaginably incendiary rhetoric in relation to Kostas Simitis”, stressing that “it is well received that suddenly twenty years later he recognizes the value of the deceased and revises what he has said. We welcome him to the right view.” Anna Diamantopoulou however one day earlier had appeared on another wavelength as she had appeared to congratulate Adoni Geoyadis for his attitude and response to Venus Latinopoulou. “If you don’t answer, you let them detach,” the PASOK executive said, pointing out that her party should review its tactics. He even went on to a sharp comment with apparently Harilau Trikoupi executives: “Only Adonis Georgiades took advantage of Latinopoulou, everyone else from above,” he said. Paul Geroulanos had moved to another wavelength saying that “I think that although he is party leader, commenting on Mrs. Latinopoulou reduces the huge deposit that Kostas Simitis leaves behind.”