Theodoros Pangalos (politician)
| Theodoros Pangalos Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Greece | |
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In office 7 October 2009 – 17 May 2012 Serving with Evangelos Venizelos (2011–2012) |
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| Prime Minister |
George Papandreou Lucas Papademos |
| Preceded by | Tzannis Tzannetakis (1993) |
| Succeeded by | Evangelos Venizelos |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 22 January 1996 – 18 February 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Costas Simitis |
| Preceded by | Karolos Papoulias |
| Succeeded by | George Papandreou |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 August 1938 Eleusis, Greece |
| Political party |
United Democratic Left (Formerly) Communist Party (Formerly) Panhellenic Socialist Movement |
Theodoros Pangalos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος, born 17 August 1938) is a Greek politician, and leading member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, responsible for the coordination of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) and the new Economic & Social Policy Committee from 2009 to 2012
Pangalos was born in Eleusis, Greece. He is the grandson of General and 1926 dictator Theodoros Pangalos. He is of Arvanite origin.
Pangalos was member of the left-wing Lambrakis Youth and, in 1964, a candidate for the Hellenic Parliament with the United Democratic Left (EDA). Pangalos opposed the 1967 military dictatorship, and was deprived by the junta of his Greek citizenship in 1968.
He became a member of the Communist Party of Greece, rising to its Central Committee, before eventually joining the PASOK socialist party during the Metapolitefsi. He was elected for the first time as a MP in the 1981 general election with PASOK and has been continuously re-elected since.
In 1996 he was appointed as a Minister for Foreign Affairs and held the post until his resignation in 1999, in the aftermath of the scandal involving the Kurdish nationalist leader, Abdullah Öcalan: helped by individual members of the Greek intelligence agencies Öcalan entered Greece illegally and was then deported to Kenya, where he was captured by Turkish agents after leaving the Greek embassy at Nairobi.
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