Fotis Kouvelis | |
Office: | Minister of Shipping and Island Policy |
Primeminister: | Alexis Tsipras |
President: | Prokopis Pavlopoulos |
Term Start: | 29 August 2018 |
Term End: | 9 July 2019 |
Successor: | Ioannis Plakiotakis |
Office1: | Deputy Minister of National Defence |
Primeminister1: | Alexis Tsipras |
President1: | Prokopis Pavlopoulos |
Term Start1: | 28 February 2018 |
Term End1: | 28 August 2018 |
Office2: | President of Democratic Left |
Term Start2: | 27 June 2010 |
Term End2: | 7 June 2015 |
Successor2: | Thanassis Theocharopoulos |
Office3: | Member of the Hellenic Parliament |
Term Start3: | 8 November 1989 |
Term End3: | 10 October 1993 |
Term Start4: | 25 September 1996 |
Term End4: | 31 December 2014 |
Office5: | Minister for Justice |
Term Start5: | 2 July 1989 |
Term End5: | 12 October 1989 |
Predecessor5: | Konstantinos Stamatis |
Successor5: | Konstantinos Stamatis |
Birth Date: | 3 September 1948 |
Birth Place: | Volos, Greece |
Nationality: | Greek |
Party: | Democratic Left Synaspismós (1992–2010) Greek Left (1987–1992) KKE Interior (1975–1986) |
Residence: | Athens, Greece |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Φώτης-Φανούριος Κουβέλης; born 3 September 1948) is a Greek lawyer and leftist politician.
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. Kouvelis was long time MP from 1989 until 2019.
He was leader of the Democratic Left party from 27 June 2010 until 7 June 2015.
From March 2018 he started to support the second Alexis Tsipras government. He became deputy minister of national defence on 28 February 2018 and served as the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy from 29 August 2018 to 9 July 2019.
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