The last goodbye to Christos Rococyllo – with the Greek flag the coffin
The funeral of his former Minister of Government is underway on Tuesday, May 27th. PASOK Christos Rokofyllou, at the First Cemetery of Athens.
Christos Rokofyllos passed away at the age of 94, last Saturday, May 24th. His family’s request was instead of wreaths to donate to the Parents’ Association of Children with Neoplastic Disease « The Flame » and Elepap and Elepap Agrinio.
This is given by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, ministers, a number of PASOK officials and the political scene. The coffin of Christos Rocophyllou is wrapped in the Greek flag.
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It is recalled that his son, Constantine Rocophyllos, made the news of death. As he wrote in a post on Facebook, « he left today calmly, having lived a complete, interesting and creative life, always with dignity. Hi dad, good trip. «
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Kyriakos Pierrakakis and Anna Diamantopoulou
Evangelos Venizelos
The coffin with the Greek flag
Nikitas Kaklamanis
Who was Christos Rocophyllos
He was born in 1931 in Amfilochia. He graduated with excellence from the Athens Law School and continued his studies in Paris, where he was awarded a Doctor of Law at the University of Paris II. He worked as a lawyer of Athens, while taught at the University of Athens.
During the constitutional crisis of 1965, he became an active role in the Alexandros Papanastasiou group, which, after the April 1967 military coup, turned into the resistance organization « Democratic Defense ». After the fall of the dictatorship, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the « Democratic Defense » and pioneered its merger with PASOK.
He was elected MP of Aitoloakarnania with PASOK in the elections of 1977, 1985, 1989 (June and November), 1990, 1993 and 1996. He was president of the Greek-France Friendship Group. A full member of the Western European Union and the Council of Europe (1990 – 1994), and head of the Greek delegation at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was a parliamentary spokesman for PASOK in Parliament that emerged from the 1993 elections.
From October 1981 to July 1982 he was commander of the Agricultural Bank, and from 1982 to 1987 he was a Greek ambassador to France, accredited at UNESCO and the Holy See in the Vatican. He served as Deputy Minister of Industry (1994 – 1995) with Minister Costas Simitis and Deputy Foreign Minister (1999 – 2000) with Minister George Papandreou. In the April 2000 elections he failed to re -elected.
