 Kostantinos Stefanopoulos Konstantinos Stephanopoulos was born in Patras on 15 August 1926. He studied law at Athens University and practiced law from 1954 until 1974, as a member of the Bar Association of Patras. He first stood for election in 1958 with the National Radical Union (ERE) and was elected for the first time as Member of Parliament for Achaia in 1964. He was re-elected for the same constituency with the New Democracy Party in the elections of 1974, 1977, 1981 and 1985. From 1981 until 1985 he served as parliamentary secretary and parliamentary spokesman for his party. Image File history File links Kostantinos_Stefanopoulos. ...
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Patras (Greek: Modern: ΠάτÏα, Ancient: ΠάτÏαι, Pátrai; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the third largest city of Greece, and also the capital of the Achaea region of Greece. ...
August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ...
1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Party logo New Democracy or ND (Greek: ÎÎα ΔημοκÏατία, Nea Dhimokratia), founded in 1974, is the main center-right liberal political party in Greece. ...
In 1974 he was Deputy Minister of Commerce in the National Unity government of Constantinos Karamanlis. For the next seven years he served in a number of ministerial posts in the New Democracy governments: Minister of the Interior from November 1974 to September 1976, Minister of Social Services from September 1976 to November 1977, Minister for the Presidency from 1977 to 1981.
In August 1985 he withdrew from the New Democracy Party and on 6 September of the same year formed the Democratic Renewal Party (DHANA). He was elected Member of Parliament for Athens in the elections of 1989 while continuing as President of DΗΑΝΑ, until it disbanded in June 1994.
In the presidential election of 1995, after being nominated by the Political Spring Party (POLΑΝ) and supported by the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) he was elected President of the Republic on 8 March 1995. He became the fifth President since the restoration of a democratic system of government in 1974, winning the election on a third ballot with 181 votes.
Constantinos Stephanopoulos succeeded Constantinos Karamanlis as President on 10 March 1995. He was re-elected President of the Republic on 8 February 2000 on the first ballot after receiving 269 votes from the 298 MPs present, and remained in office until 2 March 2005. He was succeeded by Karolos Papoulias. Karolos Papoulias Karolos Papoulias (Greek: Κάρολος Παπούλιας) is the President of the Hellenic Republic, former minister and member of the Hellenic parliament. ...
He has received many honorary awards and the highest decorations of foreign countries. He is an honorary citizen of many towns in Greece.
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This is a list of presidents of Greece. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Karolos Papoulias Karolos Papoulias (Greek: Κάρολος Παπούλιας) is the President of the Hellenic Republic, former minister and member of the Hellenic parliament. ...
See also
The 1975 constitution, which Greece as a presidential parliamentary republic, includes extensive specific guarantees of civil liberties and vests the powers of the head of state in a president elected by parliament and advised by the Council of the Republic. ...
External link - Biography from Athens News Agency
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