Ioannis Alevras
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Ioannis Alevras | |
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Ιωάννης Αλευράς | |
![]() Alevras in 1985 | |
President of Greece | |
Acting 10 March 1985 – 30 March 1985 | |
Prime Minister | Andreas Papandreou |
Preceded by | Konstantinos Karamanlis |
Succeeded by | Christos Sartzetakis |
Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament | |
In office 17 November 1981 – 3 July 1989 | |
Preceded by | Dimitrios Papaspyrou |
Succeeded by | Athanasios Tsaldaris |
Personal details | |
Born | 1912 Panhellenic Socialist Movement (1974–1995) |
Spouse | Christina Alevra |
Ioannis Alevras (
Syndicalist
Before becoming a politician, Alevras was employed at the Bank of Greece. He was a prominent syndicalist and a key figure in the foundation of OTOE (Federation of Bank Employee Organizations of Greece) in 1955. OTOE united all relevant trade unions along the lines of craft unionism with Alevras at its head for several years.
Center Union MP
Alevras was first elected to Parliament as a candidate of the
Because no party had the absolute majority in the Parliament, Papandreou carried out the 1964 Greek legislative election. Alevras successfully sought re-election while his party won the elections with a landslide majority (171 seats out of 300, with the alliance of the National Radical Union and the Progressive Party only having 107 seats).
Alevras defended fellow Center Union MP
The Aspida scandal led to the so-called
PASOK founding member
With the
He was re-elected in the 1977 Greek legislative election. This time PASOK came second with 93 MPs while New Democracy remained in government with 171 seats in Parliament. Continuing the rise of its popularity, PASOK came first in the 1981 Greek legislative election with 171 MPs while New Democracy only elected 115. Andreas Papandreou became Prime Minister while Alevras was elected Speaker of the Greek Parliament.
Acting President of Greece
In 1985 after President
Later political career
Later that year, PASOK won the 1985 Greek legislative election with 161 MPS while New Democracy elected 126. Papandreou remained Prime Minister and Alevras was elected Speaker for a second time. In the same year, Papandreou was indicted by Parliament in connection with the US$200 million Bank of Crete embezzlement scandal. He was accused of helping the embezzlement by ordering state corporations to transfer their holdings to the Bank of Crete where the interest was allegedly skimmed off to benefit PASOK.
The June 1989 Greek legislative election which followed the scandal was inconclusive. New Democracy came first with 145 MPs and PASOK second with only 125, Alevras among them. Neither was enough to form a government by itself. New Democracy formed an alliance with third Party Coalition of the Left and Progress. Their alliance formed a government under Tzannis Tzannetakis.
Synaspismos withdrew its support of the new government only months later. The resulting November 1989 Greek legislative election was again inconclusive. New Democracy came first with 148 MPs and PASOK second with 128, Alevras among them. While each had won 3 more MPs that in the previous election, again none of the two could form a government alone.
The
The Mitsotakis government remained in office for about three years. The heightened public irritation over the Macedonia issue with the neighbouring
PASOK won the elections with 170 MPs and New Democracy came second with only 111. Andreas Papandreou became Prime Minister again. Alevras was elected MP for the tenth and last time.
He died due to bronchopneumonia at 4 am, on April 6, 1995, following a three-day stay in Hygea Hospital's ICU.[2] He had a state funeral, with honors equivalent to an incumbent prime minister.[2][3]
References
- ^ a b Obituary:Yannis Alevras. May 18, 1995.
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