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Greek socialist leader Fofi Gennimata died on Monday at an Athens hospital at 57. She was diagnosed with a relapse of cancer earlier in October.

On October 11 she was admitted to Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital with an intestinal obstruction. She died “after a years’ long battle and despite the efforts of her attending physicians,” the hospital’s administration said in a statement on Monday, expressing its condolences to her family.

Covered with the Greek flag, the flag of PASOK and the flag of KINAL the coffin of Fofi Gennimata was laid to state at the Athens Cathedral on Wednesday morning, as thousands of people said farewell to one of the last dignified politicians in Greece.

Condolences from the Greek political world and from abroad are arriving as procedures for the funeral and honors of KINAL leader Fofi Gennimata are being made. The Prime Minister has declared a national day of mourning the October 27, the day Gennimata will be laid to rest.

The leader of KINAL, Fofi Gennimata, has died at the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens.

The hospital announcement states:

"Today 25/10/2021 at 12:04 pm at Evangelismos Hospital, the President of KINAL Fofi Gennimata passed away after a long battle and despite the efforts of the treating doctors.

Former conservative Foreign Minister and ex Mayor of Athens Dora Bakoyannis revealed on Monday that she has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells, but says she intends to go on working.

“It’s never easy to hear that you have cancer,” the 67-year-old New Democracy politician said in a long post on social media on Monday. She added that she is undergoing treatment and remains optimistic about a satisfactory outcome.

“I have never in my life backed down from a fight. I will continue to work and fight for the country which I love so much, while undergoing treatment,” she said.

Dora Bakoyannis is the mother of current Athens Mayor, Costas Bakoyannis, and the older sister of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Fofi Gennimata, the leader of socialist opposition party Movement for Change (KINAL/PASOK) announced on Tuesday afternoon that she will not run in upcoming party elections for leadership due to health reasons.

The government is using the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) as “a Trojan horse” to hand over state assets to private interests, the leader of Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata said on Tuesday.