Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis ( el, Φώτης-Φανούριος Κουβέλης; born 3 September 1948) is a

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lawyer and leftist politician.

Biography

Kouvelis was born in

Volos Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit ...

. He studied law and political science at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

. A member of Lambrakis Youth, he was a founding member of the

Communist Party of Greece (Interior) The Communist Party of Greece, Interior (), usually abbreviated as KKE Interior (Greek: ''ΚΚΕ Εσωτερικού''), was a Eurocommunist party existing between 1968 and 1987 in Greece. The party was formed after the Communist Party of Greece ...

, serving, from 1975 until the party's demise, on its central committee. He was a founding member of the

Greek Left Greek Left (, Elliniki Aristera, abbreviated EAR) was a Greek political party. It emerged, in January 1987, from the split in the Communist Party of Greece (Interior) into the Communist Party of Greece (Interior)-Renewing Left and the Greek Left ...

party, in 1987, and was elected its general secretary on 25 June 1989, remaining in this position until 1992. He was

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in the 1989 government of

Tzannis Tzannetakis Tzannis Tzannetakis ( el, Τζαννής Τζαννετάκης) (13 September 1927 – 1 April 2010) was a Greek politician who was briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the political crisis of 1989. Biography Tzannetakis was born in Gythe ...

. 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 Alexis Tsipras ( el, Αλέξης Τσίπρας, ; born 28 July 1974) is a Greek politician serving as Leader of the Official Opposition since 2019. He served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019. Tsipras has led the Coalition of th ...

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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* * , - , - 1948 births Living people People from Volos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Coalition of Left, of Movements and Ecology politicians 20th-century Greek lawyers Greek Left politicians 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) Justice ministers of Greece Greek MPs 2012–2014 Members of the Lambrakis Democratic Youth {{Greece-politician-stub