Former minister and MP of Ioannina of ND Antonis Fousas died.
In a statement, New Democracy states that it painfully bids farewell to a prominent legal and valuable member of its party.
Antonis Fousas was born and raised in the village of Repetista in the Municipality of Ano Kalama, Ioannina. He studied law and political science at the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki and worked as a lawyer specializing in criminal law. In 1974, as the then young lawyer, he was the first to file a lawsuit against the coup plotters for the crimes of seven years, causing the perpetrators to be convicted.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Ioannina in 1993, 1996 and 2004, while he served as Minister of the Aegean in the Governments of Ioannis Grivas and Xenophon Zolotas during the years 1989 and 1990.
The announcement in detail
The family of New Democracy bids farewell with pain to the former Minister and Member of Parliament Dimitris Fousas, who has been for decades a prominent legal and valuable member of our party, with important interventions and distinctions.
He was born and raised in the village of Repetista in the Municipality of Ano Kalama, Ioannina. He studied law and political science at the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki and worked as a lawyer specializing in criminal law. In 1974, as the then young lawyer, he was the first to file a lawsuit against the coup plotters for the crimes of seven years, causing the perpetrators to be convicted.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Ioannina in 1993, 1996 and 2004, while he served as Minister of the Aegean in the Governments of Ioannis Grivas and Xenophon Zolotas during the years 1989 and 1990.
In his long political and professional career, Antonis Fousas was distinguished for his ethos, fighting spirit and love for Greece and his special homeland. His memory will be a valuable legacy and guide for all of us. We express our sincere condolences to his family.
In a statement, the Speaker of Parliament, Konstantinos Tassoulas, states:
“Our compatriot Antonis Gr. Fousas, former Minister and Member of Parliament of the N.D., succumbed to the common human fate. for many years, and the sad news of his untimely death causes feelings of sadness, especially in the mainland.
Hailing from a small village in Pogonios, Repetisti, he became a lawyer in Athens, distinguished from an early age professionally, while at the same time leading the way in highlighting and promoting issues of his particular homeland through the institutions of the Continental Emigration.
He was honored with the office of Minister of the Aegean in the governments of wider acceptance Griva and Zolotas, to be honored by the people of Ioannina, repeatedly elected Member of Parliament for the ND, a faction which he served strongly and selflessly.
He honored with the above the popular mandate promoting important issues of the Prefecture of Ioannina, directly related to its main economic development, while he always stood by the Hellenism of Northern Epirus.
His recent award in Ioannina, at the Panhellenic Congress of the Association of Criminologists and Fighting Lawyers, came as a fair recognition of a very successful legal course of many decades and as the culmination of many other awards from scientific and expatriate bodies.
“As President of the Greek Parliament, which Antonis Fousas successfully and faithfully served, I mourn his family and relatives with feelings of sadness.”
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