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On 13/06/2022 at 16:56, arghton said:

Sad news, I respect Alenius a lot. Hoping he's doing fine, one of the few Finnish politicians to disagree with the Soviet Union, condemned the invasion of Czechoslovakia the same day it happened. 

 

Video released of Parkash Singh Badal:

Looks fine. Won't be his last hospitalisation. 

Parkash Singh Badal discharged.

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Dragan Tomić, Acting President of the Republic of Serbia (constituent state within FR Yugoslavia, made up of Serbia and Montenegro) July-December 1997 (succeeding Slobodan Milosevic who was elected as the President of Serbia and Montenegro) and later the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, dead at 86:

https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/umro-dragan-tomic/

 

In the 1990s he was one of Milosevic's top cronies and according to Germany's Federal Intelligence Service gained profits from massive smuggling operations. He also provided fuel to Serbian mobster, paramilitary leader, politician and war criminal Arkan (1952-2000) and his paramilitary unit guilty of ethnic cleansing.

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On 11/06/2022 at 16:04, arghton said:

At this point I completely agree.

She looked bloated when she was hospitalised in April, but a new picture of her was posted on twitter (late April I recall) where she looked fine. As if they applied a ton of makeup to make her look ill...

She is ill, arthritis and maybe heart/lung issues but no way she is as ill as they say she is. (From tbsnews' article: Khaleda, a 76-year-old former prime minister, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung and eye problems.)

I'll believe she was very ill when she dies. Her party/cult has already made this a political issue again

Khaleda the Faker discharged again.

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On 01/07/2021 at 10:00, drol said:

Mulayam hospitalised. Yaaaawn 

Mulayam hospitalised. Yaaaawn.

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Tweet reporting the death of V. Krishnamurthy (wiki), aged 97, one of India's most prominent civil servants who worked under 5 PMs, including Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh.

Also a Padma Shri recipient (1973).
 

 

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Former Minister of Justice Robert Badinter (wiki) who abolished death penalty back in 1981 turned 94 this year. Alongside with Edouard Balladur, I think he's one of the few old French politician who meets the fame criteria of the DL and who could be eligible to take over from Le Pen or Delors, once one of them is dead. A massive figure in France who still does interview as we saw last week where he made a zoom meeting talking about LGBT rights in the midst of Pride month.  

Worth mentioning he was married to actress Anne Vernon, born 1924 (wiki), famous for her role in The Umbrellas of Chebourg and who was also talked about here before. 

His actual wife is Elisabeth Badinter (wiki) who is 78, advocate and feminist, a brilliant mind who's everywhere this time in French medias, talking about Roe V. Wade decision. 

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On 17/01/2022 at 09:26, arghton said:

Lee Myung-bak, former President of South Korea once again hospitalised for "chronic illness"

Means that all the (2) former Presidents of South Korea are in hospital currently.

Lee Myung-bak hospitalised again.

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38 minutes ago, arghton said:

Lee Myung-bak hospitalised again.

Bak to back hospitalizations.

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On 15/10/2016 at 20:41, drol said:

Living Bhumibol's Prime Ministers:

 

*Thanin Kraivichien (b. 1927), Prime minister from 1976 to 1977

*Prem Tinsulanonda (b. 1920), Prime minister in 1980

*Anand Panyarachun (b. 1932), twice Prime minister in 1991 and 1992

*Suchinda Kraprayoon (b. 1933), Prime minister in 1992

*Chuan Leekpai (b. 1938), twice Prime minister, from 1992 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2001

*Chavalit Yongchaiyudh (b. 1932), Prime minister from 1996 to 1997

*Thaksin Sinawatra (b. 1949) Prime minister from 2001 to 2006

*Chitchai Wannasathit (b. 1949), 2006

*Surayud Chulanont (b. 1943), 2006-2008

*Somchai Wongsawat (b. 1947), 2008

*Chaovarat Chanweerakul (b. 1936), 2008

*Abhisit Vejjajiva (b. 1964), 2008-2011

*Yingluck Sinawatra (b. 1967), 2011-2014

*Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan (b. 1948), 2014

*Prayut Chan-o-cha (b. 1954)

Chuan Leekpai hospitalised, but it seems nothing serious.

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On 26/01/2021 at 17:06, Joey Russ said:

President pro tempore of the United States Patrick Leahy has been taken to a hospital

--snip

 

U.S Senator (Wiki) Patrick Leahy has fallen and broken his hip. It will require immediate surgery. Expected to make a full recovery.

 

He is 82 and retiring at the end of this term (Jan. 2023). Out of the Senate for an unknown amount of time.

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On 18/08/2018 at 21:58, Clorox Bleachman said:

Moses Ali, First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda, is almost 80 and morbidly obese. One to keep an eye on. He was brought to my attention by this spectacular video from 2 days ago.

 

Moses Ali not dead (atleast yet), but the 83-year-old Ugandan politician, possibly former Uganda's Heaviest Man, Giant of West Nile has allegedly now retired/been withdrawn from public by family:

https://theinspector.co.ug/family-withdraws-gen-moses-ali-from-public-over-ill-health/

He apparently gasps while breathing and his body can't handle sitting "through public functions for long hours" but family blame it on the chair being uncomfortable and say he's in perfect health. 

According to Ugandan media he was treated for an unknown ailment in Turkey last August. This video is from March, he had a sick leave from the parliament but returned in May and ended up falling in the parliament building the same day he returned 

 

The youtube link in Clorox Bleachman's post is "unavailable", probably has been deleted by YouTube, but I assume it was this video.

 

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Given his robust health it's barely in order to post Lord Mackay here, but today is his 95th birthday!

 

Obitable for sure, as and when

 

800px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Mackay_o

 

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6 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

Given his robust health it's barely in order to post Lord Mackay here, but today is his 95th birthday!

 

Obitable for sure, as and when

 

800px-Official_portrait_of_Lord_Mackay_o

 

If he goes in the near future he would end the current Scavenger Hunt game

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On 01/07/2022 at 19:22, arghton said:

Moses Ali not dead (atleast yet), but the 83-year-old Ugandan politician.

 


 


Moses Ali: He floats like a butterfly and stings like the Ten Commandments.

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Indian politician, former West Bengal CM/perennial coffin tease Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee shocked and saddened by the death of Tarun Majumdar. Probably thought he'd go first, he's bedbound and unable to talk. He's a diabetic with heart diseases, suffering from COPD for atleast 12-13 years.

 

Also, here's a new picture of fellow Indian communist politician VS Achuthanandan from facebook:

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If this is from last month, as it seems to be, he doesn't even look that bad! Probably bedbound, but doesn't look like he's on the verge of death. In other words, not bad for a 98-year-old who suffered a stroke a few years ago, multiple organ failure last year and covid this year.

 

Achuthanandan and Bhattacharjee in happier times, 12 years ago:

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

TURKEY

Nermin Abadan Unat (1921) Former Senator

Şükrü Elekdağ (1924) Former ambassador to the US and Japan

İlter Türkmen (1927) Foreign Affairs Minister 1980-1983

Cahit Karakaş (1928) Former minister who was kicked out of his positions during the 1980 coup.

...

İlter Türkmen, Turkish politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Turkey 1980-1983 after Kenan Evren's coup, Turkey's former Permanent Representative to the UN and former Ambassador to France, Greece and the Soviet Union, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) Commissioner-General 1991-1996 dead at 94.

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Former japanese Shinzo Abe shot  and rushed to hospital

 

 

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3 minutes ago, BeretBleu said:

Former japanese Shinzo Abe shot  and rushed to hospital

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Is that how that works?

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On 08/05/2021 at 13:52, arghton said:

Japanese Prime Ministers during the last 30 years:

Toshiki Kaifu (1931-2022) 1989-1991. Died from pneumonia in 2022 at the age of 91.

Kiichi Miyazawa (1919-2007) 1991-1993: Died at home in 2007 at the age of 87.

Morihiro Hosokawa (b. 1938) 1993-1994

Tsutomu Hata (1935-2017) 1994: Died of natural causes in 2017 at the age of 82.

Tomiichi Murayama (b. 1924) 1994-1996

Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937-2006) 1996-1998: Died of multiple organ failure at the age of 68 in a Tokyo hospital.

Keizō Obuchi (1937-2000) 1998-2000: Suffered a massive stroke at the age of 62 in 2000 and died a month and two weeks later.

Yoshirō Mori (b. 1937) 2000-2001

Junichiro Koizumi (b. 1942) 2001-2006

Shinzo Abe (1954-2022) 2006-2007, 2012-2020. Assasinated at the age of 67 in 2022.

Yasuo Fukuda (b. 1936) 2007-2008

Tarō Asō (b. 1940) 2008-2009

Yukio Hatoyama (b. 1947) 2009-2010

Naoto Kan (b. 1946) 2010-2011

Yoshihiko Noda (b. 1957) 2011-2012

and the current one, Yoshihide Suga (b. 1948) 2020-

Updated for the death of Shinzo Abe.

 

Good old Tomiichi Murayama made an appearance a bit over a week ago:

He's starting to look his age but he's still sharp mentally and says that he's doing fine.

Hosokawa, Fukuda and Mori all seem to be doing fine. Koizumi retired recently, not sure about him.

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On 25/06/2022 at 14:12, drol said:

Mulayam hospitalised. Yaaaawn.

Mulayam's much younger second wife Sadhna Gupta is dead.

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On 03/08/2021 at 15:47, arghton said:

Oceania's Political Frailty, list of Oceanian leaders by birth year (Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings...) born in and after 1916, plus honorary mentions

Jacob Nena (1941-) President of Micronesia 1996-1999

 

Jacob Nena dead at 80.

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On 09/06/2022 at 15:23, arghton said:

Luis Echeverría (1922) President 1970-1976, hospitalised atleast twice with pneumonia at around 95. Wheelchairbound immortal with a long, long health history and in January no birthday celebration was held. Can't go on forever, can he?

Guardian obit for Echeverria.

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On 09/07/2022 at 12:37, drol said:

Mulayam's much younger second wife Sadhna Gupta is dead.

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

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On 01/05/2022 at 18:44, arghton said:

 

Hirohisa Fujii (1932) Finance Minister 1993-1994 and 2009-2010

 

Hirohisa Fujii dead at 90.

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