The last “goodbye” to the former minister Dimitris Tsovolas who “left” at the age of 79, after many months of battling cancer last Thursday, they say at the moment in First Cemetery of Athens relatives, friends and associates.
The family of the former minister and lawyer wants the money to be distributed in the Ark of the World instead of wreaths.
On February 24, the ex Minister was admitted to Attikon Hospital in a state of sepsis on the ground of chemotherapy he was receiving for advanced neoplastic disease. Due to the criticality of his condition, he was admitted directly to the ICU of the hospital. As stated in a statement of the hospital, “despite the support, which included mechanical support of his respiratory and renal function, his condition worsened and ended today, February 25 at 13:35”.
Who was Dimitris Tsovolas?
THE Dimitris Tsovolas born in 1942 to Beekeepers of Arta. He studied at the Law Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Has been founding member of PASOKwas elected for the first time MP of Arta with the PASOK in 1977, and was re-elected in 1981 and again in 1985.
Remain steady at Ministry of Finance during the first eight years of the government of Andreas Papandreou, as Deputy Minister (1981-1984), Deputy Minister (1984-1985) and Minister during the period 1985-1989. He pursued a benefit policy after 1987, succeeding Costas Simitis at the Ministry of National Economy, who had implemented the austerity stabilization program since 1985. He also became known as “the son of Agogiatis”, after an article published by the newspaper Vima, with references to his origin from a poor family in Epirus.
In May 1991 was brought to Special Court accused of the Koskotas-Kalkani scandal and was sentenced in January 1992 to two and a half years in prison, with suspension and three years of deprivation of his political rights, thus losing his parliamentary seat. He was distinguished for his fighting spirit during the trial. He refused to redeem his sentence and the amount was raised among PASOK members. After the victory of PASOK in the elections of October 1993, the Greek Parliament awarded him a pardon.
Him October of 1995 left from his JV PASOK and on December 20 of the same year he founded the Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI).
The Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI) entered Parliament on elections of 1996, receiving a percentage of 4.43% and 9 seats in Parliament. In the next electoral contests he could not collect the necessary percentage, but he continued his political action until Dimitris Tsovolas asked for the suspension of DIKKI, which did not take place and he left.
From 2004 and then he had decided to give up the policy and engaged exclusively with the law.
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