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Konstantínos Karamanlís (em grego: Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής; [1] 1907 — 1998) foi um político grego. Foi primeiro-ministro de seu país por quatro vezes e presidente da república por duas vezes.
Konstantínos Karamanlís (en griego, Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Καραμανλής; Küpköy, 8 de marzo de 1907–Atenas, 23 de abril de 1998) fue un abogado y político griego, que llegó a ser presidente y primer ministro de Grecia.
- Early Life
- First Premiership
- Crises and Self-Exile
- Stasi Smear Campaign
- Second Premiership
- First and Second Presidency
- Later Life
- Legacy
- Tributes
- See Also
Karamanlis was born in the village of Proti, near the city of Serres, Macedonia, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He became a Greek citizen in 1913, after the region of Macedonia was annexed by Greece in the aftermath of the First and Second Balkan War. His father was Georgios Karamanlis, a teacher who fought during the Greek Struggle for...
After World War II, Karamanlis quickly rose through the ranks of Greek politics. His rise was strongly supported by fellow party-member and close friend Lambros Eftaxias, who served as Minister for Agriculture under the premiership of Konstantinos Tsaldaris. Karamanlis's first cabinet position was Minister for Labour in 1947 under the same administ...
In the 1961 elections, the National Radical Union won 50.8 percent of the popular vote and 176 seats. The elections were denounced by both main opposition parties, EDA and the Centre Union, who refused to recognise the result based on numerous cases of voter intimidation and irregularities, such as sudden massive increases in support for ERE agains...
In 2001, former agents of the Eastern German secret police, the Stasi, claimed to Greek investigative reporters that during the Cold War, they had orchestrated an operation of evidence falsification, to present Karamanlis as having planned a coup and thus damage his reputation in an apparent disinformation propaganda campaign. The operation alleged...
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In 1974, the invasion of Cyprus by the Turks led to the collapse of the military junta. On 23 July 1974, President Phaedon Gizikis called a meeting of old guard politicians, including Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Spiros Markezinis, Stephanos Stephanopoulos, Evangelos Averoffand others. The heads of the armed forces also participated in the meeting. The agenda was to appoint a national unity government that would lead the country to elections. Former Prime Minister Panagiotis Kanellopoulos was or...
Greek republic referendum
Influenced by Gaullist principles, Karamanlis founded the conservative party of New Democracy and in the 1974 electionsachieved a record 54.4% victory (the greatest electoral victory in modern Greek history), obtained a massive parliamentary majority and he was elected Prime Minister. The elections were soon followed by the 1974 plebiscite on the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a Hellenic Republic, the televised 1975 trials (Greek Junta Trials) of the former dictators (who...
Accession of Greece to the European Communities
Following his signing of the Accession Treaty with the European Economic Community (now the European Union) in 1979, Karamanlis relinquished the Premiership and was elected President of the Republic in 1980 by the Parliament, and in 1981 he oversaw Greece's formal entry into the European Economic Community as its tenth member. He served until 1985 then resigned and was succeeded by Christos Sartzetakis. It is famous his phrase during the 1989 political crisis and the political polarisation of...
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 as a pioneer of European integration from the earliest stages of the European Union, Ka...
Karamanlis has been praised for presiding over an early period of fast economic growth for Greece (1955–63) and for being the primary engineer of Greece's successful bid for membership in the European Union. His supporters lauded him as the charismatic Ethnarches (National Leader). Some of his left-wing opponents have accused him of condoning right...
On 29 June 2005 an audio-visual tribute celebrating Konstantinos Karamanlis' contribution to Greek culture took place at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. George Remoundos was the stage director and Stavros Xarhakos conducted and selected the music. The event under the title of Cultural Memories was organised by the Konstantinos G. Karamanlis Foundatio...
19 de abr. de 2024 · Populist Party. Konstantinos Karamanlis (born February 23 [March 8, New Style], 1907, Próti, near Sérrai, Ottoman Empire [now in Greece]—died April 23, 1998, Athens, Greece) was a Greek statesman who was prime minister from 1955 to 1963 and again from 1974 to 1980. He then served as president from 1980 to 1985 and from 1990 to 1995.
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Konstantínos Karamanlís (em grego: Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής; [1] 1907 — 1998) foi um político grego. Foi primeiro-ministro de seu país por quatro vezes e presidente da república por duas vezes.
Karamanlis aimed at strengthening the production capacity of the country: the implementation of infra-structure large-scale electrification works; application of a programme of electricity supply; drawing up the first five-year plan and establishing the Organization for Industrial Development; land reclamation works; new kinds of cultivations; r...
23 de abr. de 2019 · April 23, 2019. When King Paul entrusted Konstantinos Karamanlis to form a government on October 5, 1955 after the death of Prime Minister Alexandros Papagos, one of Greece ’s greatest modern national leaders made his first appearance on the national stage. He was destined to shape the future of the country.
