He died today at the age of 79 Dimitris Tsovolas at Attikon Hospital where he was treated.
Dimitris Tsovolas came from a poor family and was born in 1942 in the mountain village of Melissourgoi Arta, in Tzoumerka. His family was persecuted in the post-war years due to her participation in the National Resistance and the EAM during the Occupation.
He had studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and practiced law in Athens for almost six decades. He was a defense lawyer in important trials, culminating in the legal representation of the family of Alexandros Grigoropoulos after 2008, while one of the last major cases he undertook is the defense of Dimitris Papagelopoulos for the Novartis case.
He was married to Katerina Gioti and has two children. His son is a doctor while his daughter is a lawyer and a close associate.
The “son of the leader”, as he had described himself from the floor of Parliament when he spoke about his referral to the Special Court for the Koskota-Kalkani case, in 1991 entered politics immediately after the fall of the junta.
He was a founding member of PASOK in 1974, and was first elected MP for Arta in 1977 while he was re-elected in 1981 and again in 1985.
From the first government of Andreas Papandreou to the ouster of the founder of PASOK, in 1989, Dimitris Tsovolas was appointed to the Ministry of Finance initially, as Deputy Minister (1981-1984), then Deputy Minister (1984-1985) and Minister in the period 1985-1989 , where at a pre-election rally in Peristeri Andreas Papandreou had said the phrase “Tsovola dosta olas”, as he was popular for the benefits policies he applied, especially after 1987, when Costas Simitis resigned as Minister of National Economy, who had implemented the stabilization program after PASOK’s second election victory in 1985.
The businessman Kalkanis was indicted in May 1991 for settling tax arrears and was referred to the Special Court. In January 1992 he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison with suspension and three years of deprivation of his political rights, thus losing his parliamentary seat in April 1992. A repeat election was held in North Athens and GA took his place. Magakis after all the runners-up in the 1990 elections resigned.
On the occasion of the three-year deprivation of his political rights, he was not able to run in 1993, while despite the grace granted to him, he did not want to participate in the PASOK government after returning to power in 1993.
If anything distinguished Dimitris Tsovolas, it was his firm and militant stance in defense of his views. In October 1995 he left the PASOK Central Committee and on December 20 of the same year he founded the Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI).
Dimitris Tsovolas managed to be re-elected MP, in 1996, in North Athens with DIKKI, but in the elections of 2000 he could not collect the necessary percentage of 3% to enter Parliament.
Shortly afterwards, he requested the suspension of DIKKI, which was not carried out by other executives, and he himself returned, returning the state funding. In 2004 he ceased to be active in politics and devoted himself exclusively to law.
An announcement about the death of Dimitris Tsovolas was issued by the Attica Hospital
“Former Minister Dimitris Tsovolas was admitted to Attikon Hospital on Wednesday in a state of sepsis on the ground of chemotherapy he was receiving for advanced neoplastic disease. his condition of renal function deteriorated and ended today, February 25, at 13:35 “.
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