Ioannis Pasalidis
Ioannis Pasalidis (* 1889 in Sanda near today's Trabzon , Ottoman Empire ; † March 15, 1968 in Thessaloniki ; Greek Ιωάννης Πασαλίδης , alternative name Giannis Pasalidis , alternative transcription Ioannis Passalidis ) was a left-wing Greek politician and long-term chairman of the Greek Left Party Eniea Dimokratiki Aristera (EDA) and doctor.
Life
Pasalidis was born in the Ottoman Empire on the Black Sea coast in the village of Sanda in the (present-day) Trabzon region. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine in Russia at the University of Moscow (or Leningrad, depending on the source) and graduated in 1910. After graduating, he worked as a doctor in Sukhumi .
After Georgia's declaration of independence in 1918, Pasalidis ran for a seat in the Georgian parliament and entered the Georgian parliament as a member of the Georgian Social Democratic Labor Party. With the loss of Georgian independence in 1921 after the invasion of the Red Army, he also lost his parliamentary mandate.
In 1922 he emigrated to Greece and settled in Thessaloniki . In 1923 he was elected to the Greek parliament for the first time as a Venizelist (liberal-republican) member for the constituency of Thessaloniki.
In the 1930s he became a member of the Enosi Laikis Dimokratias party (Association of People's Democracy, ELD) and was a member of their central committee before joining the Greek Socialist Party (Elliniko Sozialistiko Komma, ESK). This founded the resistance organization Ellinko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (EAM) along with other parties and organizations during the occupation of Greece in 1941 . In 1945 he was a member of the Central Committee of the EAM.
In 1951 he became a member and chairman of the left-wing party Eniea Dimokratiki Aristera ( Greek Ενιαία Δημοκρατική ιριστερά ΕΔ Verein , Union of the Democratic Left EDA ) and ran for the EDA in the parliamentary elections in 1951 in the constituency of Thessaloniki. In these elections, it moved into the Greek parliament for the first time as the fourth largest party with 10.57%. Pasalidis became a Member of Parliament as a MEP from Thessaloniki and took over the leadership of the EDA Group. At the same time, Pasalidis was party leader of the EDA. The greatest success of Pasalidis was the vote share of more than 24% in the parliamentary elections in 1958 , when the EDA became the strongest opposition force as a result of an electoral reform and the fragmentation of the parties in the political center. In 1963, Pasalidis and his EDA parliamentary group expressed confidence in the new Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou in parliament. In contrast to 1956, Papandreou did not want any further cooperation with the Left Party EDA and arranged for new elections for 1964 .
He was the party and parliamentary group chairman of the EDA until the beginning of the Greek military dictatorship on April 21, 1967. The EDA was banned by the colonels immediately after they came to power. Pasalidis was arrested and died in Thessaloniki in 1968.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Valasidis, Jiannis: Biography of leading personalities from the political life of Greece. Grothusen, Klaus-Detlev (Ed.): Südosteuropa-Handbuch. Volume III. Greece. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen, 1980. P. 701. ISBN 3-525-36202-1
- ↑ Hagen Fleischer EAM 1941-1947: A Reassessment. In: Iatrides, John O .; Wrigley, Linda (Ed.): Greece at the Crossroads: The Civil War and Its Legacy. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 1995. p. 85. ISBN 0-271-02568-9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pasalidis, Ioannis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pasalidis, Giannis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek politician and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sanda near Trabzon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1968 |
| Place of death | Thessaloniki |