Dimitris Kapsanis is a Greek lawyer and politician who served four times as the
mayor of
Palaio Faliro
Palaio Faliro ( el, Παλαιό Φάληρο, ; Katharevousa: Palaion Faliron, Παλαιόν Φάληρον, meaning "Old Phalerum") is a coastal district and a municipality in the southern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. At the 2011 c ...
, one of the municipalities in the greater
Athens,
Greece area.
[http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/ retrieved July 2015]
He first assumed the mayoralty on 6 April 1975 and was re-elected in 1978 and 1982, then made a comeback with a fourth term starting in January 1999.
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A lawyer by trade, he was elected mayor of Palaio Faliro in the first municipal elections after the fall of the ]Greek Junta
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels, . Also known within Greece as just the Junta ( el, η Χούντα, i Choúnta, links=no, ), the Dictatorship ( el, η Δικτατορία, i Diktatoría, links=no, ) or the Seven Years ( el, η Ε ...
, gaining 50.4% of the vote, succeeding D. Bavarezos. After three terms he was succeeded by Chrysoveridis in 1987.[
When Chrysoveridis retired, he again stood for mayor in the 1998 election, winning in the second round with 52.3% of the vote at the head of the Independent Alliance "Faliro". In the municipal elections of 2002 he was knocked out in the first round, coming third with 21.7%, while ]Dionysis Hatzidakis
Dionysis Hatzidakis is the mayor of Palaio Faliro, one of the municipalities in the greater Athens area, Greece.http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/ retrieved July 2015
He was born in Chania in Crete. After graduating from the Hellenic Naval Academy ...
went on to be elected in the second round with 53.6%, at the head of the alliance named "New Force for Faliro".
He continued for several years as a member of the Town Council of Palaio Faliro until 2010.[http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/Default.aspx?id=2124&nt=18&lang=1 retrieved July 2015]
References
External links
Municipality of Palaio Faliro
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Mayors of places in Greece
20th-century Greek lawyers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Politicians from Athens