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Theodoros Pangalos (politician)

Greek politician (1938–2023)

Summary

Greek politician (1938–2023)

Field	Value
name	Theodoros Pangalos
native_name	Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος
image	TheodorosPangalos.jpg
caption	Pangalos in 2010
office	Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
primeminister
term_start	7 October 2009
term_end	17 May 2012
predecessor	Tzannis Tzannetakis (1993)
successor	Evangelos Venizelos (2013)
alongside	Evangelos Venizelos (20112012)
office1	Minister for Foreign Affairs
primeminister1	Costas Simitis
term_start1	22 January 1996
term_end1	18 February 1999
predecessor1	Karolos Papoulias
successor1	George Papandreou
office2	Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs
primeminister2	Andreas Papandreou
term_start2	13 October 1993
term_end2	8 July 1994
primeminister3	Andreas Papandreou
term_start3	5 June 1985
term_end3	26 July 1985
birth_date
birth_place	Eleusis, Greece
death_date
death_place	Athens, Greece
party
spouse	Christina Christofakis
relations	Theodoros Pangalos (grandfather)
children	5
website

Theodoros Pangalos (; 17 August 1938 – 31 May 2023) was a Greek politician and leading member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). 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.

Early life

Pangalos was born in Eleusis, Greece, on 17 August 1938. He was the grandson of General and 1926 dictator Theodoros Pangalos. Some of his ancestors were Arvanites.

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.

Political career

Pangalos became a member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), rising to its Central Committee, before eventually joining the PASOK socialist party during the Metapolitefsi. He was elected for the first time as an MP in the 1981 general election with PASOK and has been continuously re-elected since until 2012.

Monument at the [[MCAST]] campus in [[Mosta]], Malta, which was inaugurated in 1999 during his ministry of foreign affairs

In 1996 he was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs and held the post until his resignation in 1999, in the aftermath of the scandal involving the leader of PKK, recognized as a terrorist organization by EU, 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.

Pangalos came under fire when he said in 2018 on a radio show “The only good Turk is a dead Turk. I believe this because I have not come across a good Turk. They lack basic appreciation.”

Pangalos was briefly made Minister for Culture in 2000, an appointment which was widely criticized, in view of his previous statement that artists who had protested his handling of the Öcalan affair were kouradomanges (Greek: κουραδόμαγκες, "turd tough guys").

Death

Pangalos died on 31 May 2023, at the age of 84. His remains were cremated on 2 June.

Quotes

"Mazi ta fagame" (Greek: μαζί τα φάγαμε) ( "“We all ate it together", meaning "we are all responsible for the debt").

In popular culture

A Greek experimental pop band named Plastic Flowers sampled his famous speech "mazi ta fagame" in their song "Sinking Ship / Vanished Crew".

References

(6 October 2009). "New Papandreou government Cabinet announced".
(31 May 2012). "Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History". John Benjamins Publishing.
Πάγκαλος, Θεόδωρος (1950). ''Τα απομνημονευματά μου, 1897–1947: η ταραχώδης περιόδος της τελευταίας πεντηκονταετίας''.
(24 November 2008). "Τα Ελευσίνια μυστήρια δύο υπουργών". tovima.gr.
(2018-02-13). "Ex-minister Pangalos makes controversial comment about Turks {{!}} eKathimerini.com". [[Kathimerini]].
"Το ΒΗΜΑ onLine - ΤΟ ΑΛΛΟ ΒΗΜΑ".
(2023-05-31). "Πέθανε ο Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος - Η διαδρομή του από το ΥΠΕΞ στον Οτσαλάν έως το «μαζί τα φάγαμε»".
(20 May 2013). "I Upset My Least Favourite Big Fat Greek Minister".

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