He was recently hospitalized at the “Agioi Anargyri” hospital, where he breathed his last
Passed away today at the age of 77, Thanasis Tsouras the historical executive of PASOK who lost his battle with cancer.
For the last time he was hospitalized at the “Agioi Anargyri” hospital, where he breathed his last.
Thanasis Tsouras was a minister in the government of Andreas Papandreou, a close associate of Giorgos Gennimata, while he was also an adviser to the late Fofis Gennimata.
Who was Thanasis Tsouras?
He was born in 1946 in Athens. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens. During his studies he was a board member of the Medical Students’ Association.[1] During the dictatorship period (1967-74) he was in charge of the youth of the PAK Interior and a member of the Democratic Resistance Committees. For a long time he operated illegally and had a rich resistance activity, in collaboration with the group of Sifis Valyrakis. He had a leading role in the Polytechnic uprising (November 1973), after the suppression of which he was arrested and tortured in the ETA-ESA.[2]
Post-politically, he was a co-founding member of PA.SO.K. and was the first responsible for the youth of the Movement (1974-75) while from January 1979 to October 1981 he was the director of the Office of the mayor of Athens Dimitris Bei.
In October 1981 with the assumption of power by Andreas Papandreou, he was appointed secretary general of the Ministry of Interior at the age of 35, and is the youngest secretary general in the history of the ministry. In collaboration with Interior Minister Giorgos Gennimata, he promoted laws that allowed the return of civil war political refugees to Greece. He remained in this position until June 1985.
In the second government of Andreas Papandreou, he served as Deputy Minister of the Interior with responsibility for Public Order and the Security Forces from June 1985 to April 1986, after the merger of the Ministries of the Interior and Public Order under Menios Koutsoiorgas.[3]
From April 1986 to February 1987 he was Deputy Minister of the Interior, while from February 1987 to May 1989 he was a special advisor in the Politburo of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.[1]
In June 1989, he ran for the first time and was elected as a PASOK member of parliament in Athens A, while he was continuously elected until 2012.
With the return of PASOK to power in 1993, he served as Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications (October 1993 – September 1994) and Minister of Transport and Communications (September 1994 – September 1995).[4]
He was not used in ministerial positions by the governments of Kostas Simitis and George Papandreou.
Source: Skai
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