KINAL leader Fofi Gennimata dies at age 56

Movement for Change (KINAL) president Fofi Gennimata died on Monday at the age of 56.

She was in the middle of a leadership race for the party.

She died “after a years’ long battle and despite the efforts of her attending physicians,” the hospital’s administration said in a statement on Monday, expressing its condolences to her family.

The mother of three was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, at the age of 43.

Health Minister Thanos Plevris posted a tweet expressing his condolences. Gennimata “fought bravely against her illness,” he said.