Fotis Kouvelis
Fotis Kouvelis | |
|---|---|
| Φώτης Κουβέλης | |
.jpg) Kouvelis in 2014 | |
| Minister of Shipping and Island Policy | |
| In office 29 August 2018 – 9 July 2019 | |
| President | Prokopis Pavlopoulos |
| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
| Preceded by | Panagiotis Kouroumplis |
| Succeeded by | Ioannis Plakiotakis |
| Deputy Minister of National Defence | |
| In office 28 February 2018 – 28 August 2018 | |
| President | Prokopis Pavlopoulos |
| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
| President of Democratic Left | |
| In office 27 June 2010 – 7 June 2015 | |
| Succeeded by | Thanassis Theocharopoulos |
| Member of the Hellenic Parliament | |
| In office 8 November 1989 – 10 October 1993 | |
| In office 25 September 1996 – 31 December 2014 | |
| Minister for Justice | |
| In office 2 July 1989 – 12 October 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Konstantinos Stamatis |
| Succeeded by | Konstantinos Stamatis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 September 1948 Volos, Greece |
| Political party | Democratic Left Synaspismós (1992–2010) Greek Left (1987–1992) KKE Interior (1975–1986) |
| Residence(s) | Athens, Greece |
| Alma mater | University of Athens |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | www.kouvelis.gr |
Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis (Greek: Φώτης-Φανούριος Κουβέλης; born 3 September 1948) is a Greek lawyer and leftist politician.
Biography
[edit]Kouvelis was born in Volos. He studied law and political science at the University of Athens.
A member of Lambrakis Youth, he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Greece (Interior), serving, from 1975 until the party's demise, on its central committee. He was a founding member of the Greek Left party, in 1987, and was elected its general secretary on 25 June 1989, remaining in this position until 1992. He was Minister for Justice in the 1989 government of Tzannis Tzannetakis and was responsible for the legal procedures for the Koskotas scandal.[1] Kouvelis was a MP from 1989 until 2019.
He was the leader of the Democratic Left party from 27 June 2010 until 7 June 2015.
In March 2018, he started to support the second Alexis Tsipras government. On 28 February 2018, he became deputy minister of National Defense and served as the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy from 29 August 2018 to 9 July 2019.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Clive, Nigel (1990). "The Dilemmas of Democracy in Greece". Government and Opposition. 25 (1): 115–122. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1990.tb00750.x. JSTOR 44482490.
External links
[edit]
Media related to Fotis Kouvelis at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
(in Greek)
This page incorporates information from the Hellenic Parliament website
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
 | This article about a Greek politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1948 births
- Living people
- People from Volos
- Communist Party of Greece (Interior) politicians
- Greek Left politicians
- Coalition of Left, of Movements and Ecology politicians
- Democratic Left (Greece) politicians
- Justice ministers of Greece
- Greek MPs 1989 (June–November)
- Greek MPs 1989–1990
- Greek MPs 1990–1993
- Greek MPs 2000–2004
- Greek MPs 2004–2007
- Greek MPs 2007–2009
- Greek MPs 2009–2012
- Greek MPs 2012 (May)
- Greek MPs 2012–2014
- Members of the Lambrakis Democratic Youth
- 20th-century Greek lawyers
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
- Greek politician stubs