Political Frailty

[Ulitzer95 12,594]

On 15/04/2021 at 19:51, arghton said:

Incomplete list of European ministers and heads of state/govt alive who served in WW2/WW2 generation (born before 1928):

Green: Served in ww2

Gray: Unknown/auxiliary

Purple: Didn't serve in ww2

*snip*

 

Denmark

J.K. Hansen (b. 1926) Jørgensen's fifth cabinet Minister of Transport (formerly Minister of Public Works) 1981-1982.

Thorkild Simonsen (b. 1926) Rasmussen's third and fourth cabinet Interior Minister 1997-2000. Video from 2016.

*snip*

Thorkild Simonsen (wiki) dead at 96.

[drol 11,945]

On 19/02/2021 at 19:11, drol said:

Former Assam CM Prafulla Mahanta has been in and out of hospital  recently. Likely goner before the end of the year.

Prafulla Mahanta's father dead at 99.

[MortalCaso 1,627]

(Wiki) Moon Landrieu has died age 92. Former HUD secretary under President Carter. Previously was a mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana and State Representative.

 

 

There are now just 6 living Cabitnet members from President Carter's administration. 

[drol 11,945]

53 minutes ago, MortalCaso said:

Moon Landrieu has died age 92. Former HUD secretary under President Carter. Previously was a mayor of New Orleans,  Louisiana and State Representative.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/us/moon-landrieu-dead.html

 

There are now just 6 living Cabitnet members from President Carter's administration. 

Goodnight Moon.

 

Big death in Louisiana politics.

[Captain Hemlock 742]

DDP obit for Moon Landrieu

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ap-new-orleans-mitch-landrieu-black-mary-b2160319.html?amp

[Deathrace 1,170]

2 hours ago, drol said:

Goodnight Moon.

 

Big death in Louisiana politics.

His daughter was a Senator and I think his son was a Governor 

[arghton 6,725]

On 04/09/2022 at 11:19, arghton said:

Parkash Singh Badal hospitalised for the fifth time this year, this time with a mild fever.

Parkash Singh Badal stable and improving of course, but turns out it wasn't just a fever, he also had some heart problems, which is why he's in the Advanced Cardiac Centre of PGIMER. 

[Philip 121]

2 hours ago, Deathrace said:

His daughter was a Senator and I think his son was a Governor 

His son was new Orleans mayor

[drol 11,945]

On 11/07/2022 at 01:33, arghton said:

Mulayam himself has been discharged, met the Uttar Pradesh CM.

Mulayam hospitalised again.

[arghton 6,725]

33 minutes ago, drol said:

Mulayam hospitalised again.

He's on oxygen and looks horrible. Really gone downhill since his wife died in July:

I don't think this'll be his last hospitalisation though.

[drol 11,945]

19 hours ago, arghton said:

Parkash Singh Badal stable and improving of course, but turns out it wasn't just a fever, he also had some heart problems, which is why he's in the Advanced Cardiac Centre of PGIMER. 

Parkash discharged .

 

They are titanium, you just can't kill them.

[arghton 6,725]

Mulayam visited by 2019 DL cup pick, Haryana's former CM and convicted crook Om Prakash Chautala, who doesn't look great either:

[drol 11,945]

Ancient Bangla political heavyweight Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury (wiki), 87, who has been the Parliament deputy leader for years, critically ill and hospitalised .

 

Will she pull through like a real Asian?

[arghton 6,725]

On 25/05/2022 at 18:34, arghton said:

Cesar Virata, Marcos economy tsar and former Prime Minister of the Philippines attended a meeting to "discuss the future of the country" yesterday:

Probably one of the fattest nonagenarians I've seen judging on the recent pictures.

Cesar Virata (former Prime Minister of the Philippines, was in ICU after covid + pneumonia + stroke two years ago) appeared at some event this week, looked pretty horrible (but seems like he always looks miserable):

Out of the remaining Marcos cronies, who's next, Virata, JPE, Rodolfo Cuenca? Does Imelda count?

[Thatcher 2,411]

Peter Robinson, former First Minister of Northern Ireland seems to have aged a fair bit (photo here). Suffered a heart attack in 2015 and stepped back completely from frontline politics, perhaps one to watch.

 

See also Neil Kinnock on the left of this photo.

[drol 11,945]

On 09/09/2022 at 21:16, drol said:

Ancient Bangla political heavyweight Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury (wiki), 87, who has been the Parliament deputy leader for years, critically ill and hospitalised .

 

Will she pull through like a real Asian?

Nope.

 

Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury dead at 87.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,341]

This post is sort of the opposite  to Ideas and possibilities for 2023.

90 year old Lord Wakeham  was at King Charles proclamation ceremony in St James Palace on Saturday as all previous Leaders of the House of Commons were invited. So he managed to attend and reportedly  looked well.

 

 

[drol 11,945]

On 30/04/2022 at 18:31, drol said:

List of ancient M'sian politicians:
 

*Samy Vellu (1936), corrupted minister of works

Samy Vellu dead at 86.

[arghton 6,725]

On 01/05/2022 at 19:44, arghton said:

ISRAEL (Knesset members and minor politicians up to 1930, Ministers up to 1935)

Tamar Eshel (1920-2022) Knesset (parliament) member 1977-1984

Shmuel Toledano (1921) Knesset member 1977-1981

Mordechai Bibi (1922) Knesset member 1959-1974

Moshe Meron (1926) Knesset member 1977-1981

Aharon Yadlin (1926-2022) Minister of Education 1974-1977, Knesset member 1959-1981

Elyakim Haetzni (1926) Knesset member 1988-1992

...

Elyakim Haetzni, Israeli politician, dead at 96:

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-717480

[Grimgrass 514]

On 20/10/2020 at 13:02, arghton said:

Jaakko Numminen (b. 1928) Minister of Education 1970 in the Aura I cabinet, was never a parliament member.

Jaakko Numminen dead at 93.

[arghton 6,725]

Pak Yong-il, incumbent (since 2019) Chairman of the Central Committee (leader) of North Korea's "second-largest" party, the Korean Social Democratic Party, dead at 56.

 

There are 4 parties in NK, Workers' Party is the ruling party and has 607 out of the 687 seats in the Supreme People's Assembly. There are three other, collaborating, mostly powerless parties (Chongryon an organization rather than a party): The Social Democratic Party with 50/687 of the seats, the Chondoist Chongu Party with 22/687 of the seats that was lead by Ryu Mi-yong until her death from lung cancer in November 2016 at 95 and Chongryon with 5 members.

 

The oldest known living NK politicians (if Jong Chang-ryol is dead) are former President of the Presidium Kim Yong-nam and former Vice Premier Jon Ha-chol, both 94. I think there's a list somewhere in KJU's thread. The oldest non-Workers' Party politician is Kim Yong-dae, Yong-il's 84-year-old predecessor.

[Ulitzer95 12,594]

On 21/06/2016 at 15:48, drol said:

Old Italian politicians:

 

Giorgio Napolitano (1925), former President of Italian Republic and Communist despot

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1920) same as the previous, but shorter

Arnaldo Forlani (1925) wererabbit

Aldo Tortorella (1926) communist

Alfredo Reichlin (1925) communist

Silvio Berlusconi (1936) legend

Giovanni Pieraccini (1918) communist

Vincenzo Scotti (1933) smart man indeed

Toni Negri (1933) communist

Lamberto Dini (1931) freemason

Romano Prodi (1939) mortadella

Virginio Rognoni (1924) DC

Ciriaco de Mita (1929) mafia DC

Stefano Rodotà (1933) Arbereshe

Virginio Rognoni (wiki) dead at 98.

[Ulitzer95 12,594]

I think there’s an obit here for Marilyn P. Johnson (wiki), U.S. diplomat, who has died aged 100.

 

Can’t see it cos it’s Euro blocked. Maybe one of our U.S. members can help.

[Gisooo 3,329]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

I think there’s an obit here for Marilyn P. Johnson (wiki), U.S. diplomat, who has died aged 100.

 

Can’t see it cos it’s Euro blocked. Maybe one of our U.S. members can help.

 

[drol 11,945]

On 16/04/2022 at 15:39, drol said:

Here's your unrequested list of provincial Chinese politicians born before 1940. Three centenarians, a 98 year old, and a lot born in the early 30s.

 

Song Baorui (1937)

 

 

Song Baorui dead at 84.