Evangelos Yannopoulos
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Evangelos Yannopoulos or Giannopoulos (
Regime of the Colonels
in 1974, and for having his own talk show on Greek television.
Life
He was born in 1918 the village of Mygdalia, in
ELAS
.
In 1964 he met
Regime of the Colonels took power in Greece in 1967, Yannopoulos was active in the resistance against the dictatorship, and was imprisoned. In 1974, after the fall of the Colonels, Yannopoulos played a key role in arranging criminal prosecutions against them, along with fellow lawyers Alexandros Lykourezos, Grigoris Kasimatis, and Foivos Koutsikas. In 1974 he was a founding member of PASOK.[2]
After PASOK
Minister of Justice
(1996–2000).
He died on 4 September 2003, aged 85.
TV show and public image
For many years Yannopoulos had his own political talk show on Greek television, titled "I Alli Opsi" (The other view), which achieved very high ratings.
As a politician, Yannopoulos was a polarizing figure, very popular with left-wing Greeks, but unpopular with conservatives.
References
- AP News. 2003-09-04. Retrieved 2019-04-21.
- ^ "PASOK founder loses cancer battle". SBS. 9 September 2003. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.