ATHENS: Karolos Papoulias, a former president of Greece, has died at the age of 92, Greece's state news agency ANA reports. Papoulias, a longtime socialist lawmaker and minister, was close to Andreas Papandreou, the founder of the Socialist Pasok party, and an opponent of Papandreou's successor, the moderate modernizer Costas Simitis. This opposition prompted conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, who succeeded Simitis in 2004, to propose Papoulias for the largely ceremonial position of president in early 2005.
