Ioannis Grivas

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Ioannis Grivas ( Greek Ιωάννης Γρίβας , born February 23, 1923 in Kato Tithorea , Fthiotida Prefecture ; † November 27, 2016 ) was a Greek judge. In 1989 he was Prime Minister for around six weeks.

Grivas graduated from Athens University with a law degree and has been a judge since 1954. Later was a judge at the court that sentenced the leaders of the military dictatorship from 1967 to 1974. In 1979 he was appointed judge at the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) and rose there in 1986 to its vice-president. As such, he was also chairman of the special court convicting deputy ministers of the PASOK government from 1985 to 1987 after they were involved in an economic scandal. In 1989 he finally became President of the Supreme Court.

After neither PASOK nor Nea Dimokratia (ND) achieved a majority capable of governing in the National Assembly , Grivas became Prime Minister of a transitional government after the resignation of Prime Minister Tzannis Tzannetakis on October 11, 1989 due to the constitution. After PASOK and ND were unable to achieve a governable majority in the subsequent elections, Grivas resigned on November 23, 1989 in favor of Xenophon Zolotas , who formed a coalition government from the three parties represented in the National Assembly.

In 1990 Grivas also resigned as President of the Supreme Court.

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  1. Πέθανε ο πρώην πρόεδρος του Αρείου Πάγου και υπηρεσιακός πρωθυπουργός Ιωάννης Γρίβας
  2. http://www.areiospagos.gr/en/proedros.htm
predecessor Office successor
Tzannis Tzannetakis Prime Minister of Greece
Oct-Nov 1989
Xenophon Zolotas