Tzannis Tzannetakis

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Tzannis Tzannetakis ( Greek : Τζαννής Τζαννετάκης; born September 13, 1927 in Gythio , Laconia ; † April 1, 2010 in Athens ) was a Greek politician and briefly Prime Minister in 1989 .

Naval officer and Greek military dictatorship

Tzannetakis embarked on a career in the Navy. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he was a naval officer in command of the gunboat Lakos and later a submarine . One day after the coup by Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos on April 22, 1967, he retired from active military service . During the military dictatorship established by Papadopoulos, he was imprisoned between 1969 and 1971. Then he went into exile .

Political career

Member of Parliament and ND official

After the end of the military dictatorship in 1974, Tzannetakis joined the Nea Dimokratia (ND) founded by Konstantinos Karamanlis . From 1974 to 1977 he was Secretary General of the Greek Tourism Agency (EOT). His actual political career began in 1977 with the election as a member of the National Assembly , in which he has since represented the interests of the ND for constituencies in Athens . In the current National Assembly he was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education.

In 1982 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lord Mayor of Athens . Subsequently, he was head of the local political department of the ND for four years and later several times manager of the ND's election campaigns (1989, 1993 and 1996).

Minister and Prime Minister

From May 1980 until the defeat of ND by PASOK in October 1981, Tzannetakis was Minister of Construction in Georgios Rallis' cabinet .

After the ND won the parliamentary elections in June, he became Prime Minister on July 2, 1989 as the successor to Andreas Papandreou , as the then party chairman of the ND Konstantinos Mitsotakis was unable to form a one-party government due to an electoral reform previously passed by PASOK Wanted to form a coalition government. Tzannetakis formed a coalition government with the left-wing alliance Synaspismos , to which the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) also belonged. In his cabinet he was also foreign minister. From July 2, 1989 to February 13, 1990, he was also Minister of Tourism. After Synaspismos gave up his support, Tzannetakis resigned as prime minister on October 11, 1989.

In the parliamentary elections that followed, the ND won 46 percent of the vote and was ahead of PASOK, which received 40 percent of the vote. In the cabinet of his successor Ioannis Grivas following Xenophon Zolotas , who formed a "coalition of reason" with the three represented in the National Assembly parties (ND, PASOK and Synaspismos) on 23 November 1989 he was Minister of National Defense and tourism. After this coalition also resigned after four months on April 11, 1990 due to differences of opinion, the ND emerged from the third parliamentary elections within a year with an 8 percent advantage over PASOK.

Tzannetakis was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State until October 13, 1993 in the subsequent governing cabinet under the chairman of the ND, Konstantinos Mitsotakis . At times (1990 to 1991) he was also Minister of Culture.

Publications

Tzannetakis also translated works of Brahmanism and on the religion of Manichaeism into Greek and published works on India such as

Biographical sources and background information

predecessor Office successor
Andreas Papandreou Prime Minister of Greece
1989 		Ioannis Grivas
personal data
SURNAME Tzannetakis, Tzannis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician; Prime Minister of Greece (1989)
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Gythio , Laconia , Greece
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2010
Place of death Athens