Alexandros Kountouras

Alexandros Kountouras ( d. 30 April 2012) was a Hellenic Army officer. In the era of the Metapolitefsi, he became known as one of the core supporters of the monarchy. He was a founder (along with Georgios Kourouklis) and afterwards the leader of BEO ("The National Byzantine Organisation", earlier the "National Royal Organization"), a name that was eventually modified due to litigation.

Biography Kountouras was an officer of Infantry in the Hellenic Army, with service in the Mountain Raiding Companies (LOK). In December 1967, he took part in the counter-coup d état of Constantine II of Greece, with whom he tried to counterattack against the junta. After its failure, the junta cashiered him.

In the plebiscite of 1974 for on the constitutional question, Kountouras agitated vigorously for monarchy over republic, and a little later, together with other monarchists (among whom were many ex-army officers, foremost among them Georgios Kourouklis) he helped found the BEO (, Vasiliki Ethniki Organosi, "National Royal Organisation"). But the Konstantinos Karamanlis government lodged judicial proceedings against the BEO, which at last had to change its name to the «Βυζαντινή Εθνική Οργάνωση» (Vyzantini Ethniki Organosi, "National Byzantine Organisation).