Fotis Kouvelis

Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis (; born 3 September 1948) is a Greek lawyer and leftist politician.

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. He was Minister for Justice in the 1989 government of Tzannis Tzannetakis and was responsible for the legal procedures for the Koskotas scandal. Kouvelis was a MP from 1989 until 2019.

He was the leader of the Democratic Left party from 27 June 2010 until 7 June 2015.

In March 2018, he started to support the second Alexis Tsipras government. On 28 February 2018, he became deputy minister of National Defense and served as the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy from 29 August 2018 to 9 July 2019.

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