Fotis Kouvelis

Fotis Kouvelis Φώτης Κουβέλης MP
Minister of Shipping and Island Policy
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 August 2018
President	Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Prime Minister	Alexis Tsipras
Preceded by	Panagiotis Kouroumplis
Deputy Minister of National Defence
In office 28 February 2018 – 28 August 2018
President	Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Prime Minister	Alexis Tsipras
President of Democratic Left
In office 27 June 2010 – 7 June 2015
Succeeded by	Thanassis Theocharopoulos
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
In office 8 November 1989 – 10 October 1993
In office 25 September 1996 – 31 December 2014
Minister for Justice
In office 2 July 1989 – 12 October 1989
Preceded by	Konstantinos Stamatis
Succeeded by	Konstantinos Stamatis
Personal details
Born	(1948-09-03) 3 September 1948 Volos, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Political party	Democratic Left Synaspismós (1992–2010) Greek Left (1987–1992) KKE Interior (1975–1986)
Residence	Athens, Greece
Alma mater	University of Athens
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Lawyer
Website	www.kouvelis.gr

Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis (Greek: Φώτης-Φανούριος Κουβέλης; born 3 September 1948) is a Greek lawyer and politician and independent Member of Parliament. He is the leader of the Democratic Left party.

Biography

Kouvelis was born in Volos. He studied law and political science at the University of Athens.

A member of Lambrakis Youth, he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Greece (Interior), serving, from 1975 until the party's demise, on its central committee. He was a founding member of the Greek Left party, in 1987, and was elected its general secretary on 25 June 1989, remaining in this position until 1992. In the second Government of SYRIZA he became deputy minister of national defence on 28 February 2018.

He was Minister for Justice in the 1989 government of Tzannis Tzannetakis.

External links

• Media related to Fotis Kouvelis at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website (in Greek)

This page incorporates information from the Hellenic Parliament website