Theodore Katsanevas ( el, Θεόδωρος Κατσανέβας; 13 March 1947 – 8 May 2021) was a Greek academic and politician. He was a member of the
Greek Parliament
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from 1989 to 2004
for the
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
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(PA.SO.K).
In May 2013, Katsanevas founded the political party
Drachmi Greek Democratic Movement Five Stars,
which campaigns for Greece to abandon the
euro
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and return to the
drachma
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# An ancient Greek currency unit issued by many Greek city states during a period of ten centuries, fro ...
.
Biography
Katsanevas received his degree from the
University of Piraeus
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.
He obtained an
MA from the
University of Warwick
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and a
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from the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
.
He was a professor of
labour economics at the University of Piraeus.
In 1981, Katsanevas was among the authors of the program for the first cabinet of
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou ( el, Ανδρέας Γεωργίου Παπανδρέου, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, wh ...
and he was first appointed to the
Manpower Employment Organisation (OAED, ), then in 1985 to the state welfare agency. He was elected deputy in the second electoral district of Athens with
PASOK
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012, it ...
from 1989 until 2004, when he was officially restricted from standing as a candidate by the party itself.
Economist
Stavros Thomadakis
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Academic career
Thomadakis was born i ...
called Katsanevas's 1984 book, ''Trade Unions in Greece'' "an important contribution to the systematic examination of the Greek labor union movement."
As early as 2011, Katsanevas and other Greek economists advocated for Greece to abandon the
euro
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and return to its former national currency, the
drachma
The drachma ( el, δραχμή , ; pl. ''drachmae'' or ''drachmas'') was the currency used in Greece during several periods in its history:
# An ancient Greek currency unit issued by many Greek city states during a period of ten centuries, fro ...
, as a response to the
Greek government-debt crisis
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.
In 2013 he went on to found
Drachmi Greek Democratic Movement Five Stars,
a Greek political party advocating the currency change.
Papandreou heritage
![Bill Clinton and Andreas Papandreou CROP](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Bill_Clinton_and_Andreas_Papandreou_CROP.jpg)
Until their divorce in 2000, Katsanevas was married to Sophia, the daughter of
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou ( el, Ανδρέας Γεωργίου Παπανδρέου, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, wh ...
, former
Prime Minister of Greece
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.
In Papandreou's
will
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...
, as publicly disclosed on 13 September 1996, he described Katsanevas as a "disgrace to the family" ( el, όνειδος της οικογένειας)
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Athens News Agency, 13 September 1996
''disgrazia'' means ''disgrace''
. and said that "his aim was to politically inherit the history of struggle of Georgios Papandreou and Andreas Papandreou" (Georgios Papandreou
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was Andreas' father and was also a Greek Prime Minister).
Papandreou's four children objected to their father's will, in which he left his entire estate to his third wife, former airline hostess Dimitra Liani
Dimitra Liani ( el, Δήμητρα Λιάνη; born 30 April 1955) is a Greek former air hostess known for being the third wife and widow of Prime Minister of Greece Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou ( el, Ανδρέας Γεωργ ...
. Papandreou's relationship with Liani had been a source of controversy during his last years in public office, when his health was failing. He had placed Liani in charge of his office, and opponents of Papandreou alleged that she was overstepping the bounds of her authority and seeking to advance a political career of her own.[ Liani became the subject of unfavourable news media attention,] including publication, by the newspaper Avriani (which for many years supported Papandreou) of old photographs that showed her naked with men and other women. These photographs were immediately denounced as a "crude photo-montage" and Liani accused Katsanevas of orchestrating the publicity against her; Papandreou supported her, seeking unsuccessfully to convince his three sons to ostracize their brother-in-law.[
Katsanevas disputed the validity of the will] and in 2003 won a defamation trial against Spyros Karatzaferis, publisher of a newspaper which for some time in 1998 featured, every day on the front page, a photograph of Katsanevas subtitled "Disgrace". However, the judgement in the case did not address the authenticity of the will.
As a result of this matter being described in Katsanevas' biography in the Greek Wikipedia
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, he brought a lawsuit against a Greek Wikipedia user and administrator known by the user name "Diu" and the Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS), although neither has any control over the Wikipedia. The judge temporarily ordered the administrator to remove the information from Wikipedia. The administrator complied, but the information was soon replaced by another editor. The temporary court order
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was reversed on 1 September 2014, while the main trial was still pending. The administrator noted that the lawsuit and publicity had produced a Streisand effect
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and that the original Greek article was now hosted in translation on multiple Wikipedias in English, Catalan, Polish, Yakut, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian.
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financially supported the legal defense of the Wikipedia user subject to the defamation lawsuit in Greece. In 2018 the trial ended with Katsanevas dropping all claims.
Death
Katsanevas died on 8 May 2021, at age 74, from COVID-19
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at a hospital in Athens
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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
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.
Bibliography
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References
External links
Website (pages in English)
Blog
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Politicians from Athens
1947 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Members of the Hellenic Parliament
PASOK politicians
Academic staff of the University of Piraeus
Drachmi Greek Democratic Movement Five Stars politicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece