The KKE bids farewell to Popi Kappos, wife of Kostas Kappos, who was a member of the Central Committee and parliamentary representative of the Communist Party.
“Popi Kappos was born in 1935 in Agios Kyrykos, Ikaria, from a progressive family, she met Kostas Kappos in the mid-1960s, when he was a student at the Industrial School of Piraeus, and spent with him all the difficult years of the dictatorship, leading the mobilizations for the release of political prisoners”, notes the KKE.
He then adds that “Popi Kappou, a member of the KKE for many years, was a dynamic personality, unyielding in the difficulties that she and her family faced due to their ideology” states a party announcement.
The KKE expresses its condolences to the children of Thanasis and Fotini and to all her relatives.
Who was Kostas Kappos?
Kostas Kappos was elected a member of parliament of the KKE in 1974 and since then he was continuously elected until 1989.
Also in February 1981 he replaced Kostas Loule as MEP with the KKE. He served as a member of the European Parliament until October 1981. In 1989 he voted against the ND-PASOK-KKE joint government, stressing in the Parliament that “I am against the cooperation of the Coalition with the New Democracy and PASOK”.
Subsequently, Kostas Kappos, together with other members and executives of the KKE and the KNE, contributes to the establishment of the New Left Current. He left NAR in ’91, shortly after the 2nd Panhellenic Conference.
In the last years of his life, he worked at the Center for Marxist Research (KME) as a member of its Board of Directors, while he continued to participate in popular struggles, having again approached the KKE.
Kostas Kappos died at the age of 68 in 2005.
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