Greek socialist party leader dies at 57 after battle with cancer

FILE PHOTO: Party of European Socialists (PES) President Sergei Stanishev (L) welcomes PASOK Socialist party leader Fofi Gennimata at a meeting of the European Socialists in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 16, 2016. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/File Photo

ATHENS (Reuters) - Fofi Gennimata, the leader of Greece's socialist opposition Movement for Change, died on Monday after a long battle with cancer.

The death of Gennimata, who was 57, was announced by the Evangelismos hospital where she had been receiving treatment in recent weeks.