Konstantinos Mitsotakis Κωνσταντίνος Μητσοτάκης |
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76th Prime Minister of Greece | |
In office 11 April 1990 – 13 October 1993 |
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President |
Christos Sartzetakis Konstantinos Karamanlis |
Preceded by | Xenophon Zolotas |
Succeeded by | Andreas Papandreou |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 14 April 1992 – 7 August 1992 |
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Preceded by | Antonis Samaras |
Succeeded by | Michalis Papakonstantinou |
In office 10 May 1980 – 21 October 1981 |
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Prime Minister | Georgios Rallis |
Preceded by | George Rallis |
Succeeded by | Ioannis Charalambopoulos |
Minister of the Aegean | |
In office 8 August 1991 – 13 October 1993 |
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Preceded by | George Misailidis |
Succeeded by | Kostas Skandalidis |
Minister of Coordination | |
In office 10 May 1978 – 10 May 1980 |
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Prime Minister | Konstantinos Karamanlis |
Preceded by | George Rallis |
Succeeded by | Ioannis Boutos |
In office 17 September 1965 – 22 December 1966 |
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Prime Minister | Stefanos Stefanopoulos |
Preceded by | Dimitrios Papaspirou |
Succeeded by | Ioannis Paraskevopoulos |
Personal details | |
Born |
Halepa, Greece |
18 October 1918
Political party |
Liberal (Before 1961) Centre Union (1961–1974) Independent (1974–1977) New Liberal (1977–1978) New Democracy (1978–present) |
Spouse(s) | Marika Mitsotakis (1930–2012) |
Children |
Kyriakos Dora Alexandra Katerina |
Alma mater | University of Athens |
Religion | Greek Orthodoxy |
Konstantinos Mitsotakis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Μητσοτάκης Konstantinos Mitsotakis [konstaˈdinos mit͡soˈtacis]; born 31 October [O.S. 18 October] 1918) is a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens.
Mitsotakis was born in Halepa village, Chania, Crete, inside an already powerful political family, linked to Eleftherios Venizelos on both sides. His grandfather Kostis Mitsotakis (1845-1898), a lawyer, journalist and short-time MP of Ottoman Crete, founded the Liberal Party, then "Party of the Barefeet" (Κόμμα των Ξυπολήτων) with Venizelos, and married the latter's sister, Katigo Venizelou, Constantine's grandmother. The 1878 Pact of Halepa, granting an Ottoman Crete a certain level of autonomy, was signed in his very home. His father Kyriakos Mitsotakis (1883–1944) , also MP for Chania in the Greek Parliament (1915–20) and leader of the Cretan volunteers in the First Balkan War, married Stavroula Ploumidaki, daughter of Charalambos Ploumidakis , the first Christian mayor of Chania and an MP at the time of the Cretan State, himself a first cousin of Eleftherios Venizelos.