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Konstantinos Karamanlis
Konstantinos Karamanlis was a Greek conservative statesman, prime minister from 1955 to 1963 and from 1974 to 1980, and president from 1980 to 1985 and 1990 to 1995. Returning from exile when the military junta collapsed in 1974, he led the transition to democracy known as the Metapolitefsi, founded the New Democracy party and brought Greece into the European Community in 1981.

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