Theodoros Katsanevas

Theodore Katsanevas (; 13 March 1947 – 8 May 2021) was a Greek academic and politician. He was a member of the Greek Parliament from 1989 to 2004 for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PA.SO.K). In May 2013, Katsanevas founded the political party Drachmi Greek Democratic Movement Five Stars,

Biography Katsanevas received his degree from the University of Piraeus. He obtained an MA from the University of Warwick and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Economist Stavros Thomadakis called Katsanevas's 1984 book, Trade Unions in Greece "an important contribution to the systematic examination of the Greek labor union movement."

As early as 2011, Katsanevas and other Greek economists advocated for Greece to abandon the euro and return to its former national currency, the drachma, as a response to the Greek government-debt crisis. In 2013 he went on to found Drachmi Greek Democratic Movement Five Stars, In Papandreou's will, as publicly disclosed on 13 September 1996, he described Katsanevas as a "disgrace to the family" and said that "his aim was to politically inherit the history of struggle of Georgios Papandreou and Andreas Papandreou" (Georgios Papandreou was Andreas' father and was also a Greek Prime Minister).

Papandreou's four children objected to their father's will, in which he left his entire estate to his third wife, former flight attendant Dimitra Liani. Papandreou's relationship with Liani had been a source of controversy during his last years in public office, when his health was failing. He had placed Liani in charge of his office, and opponents of Papandreou alleged that she was overstepping the bounds of her authority and seeking to advance a political career of her own. including publication, by the newspaper Avriani (which for many years supported Papandreou) of old photographs that showed her naked with men and other women. These photographs were immediately denounced as a "crude photo-montage" The judge temporarily ordered the administrator to remove the information from Wikipedia. The administrator complied, but the information was soon replaced by another editor. The temporary court order was reversed on 1 September 2014, while the main trial was still pending. The administrator noted that the lawsuit and publicity had produced a Streisand effect and that the original Greek article was now hosted in translation on multiple Wikipedias in English, Catalan, Polish, Yakut, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian. In 2018 the trial ended with Katsanevas dropping all claims.

Death Katsanevas died on 8 May 2021, at age 74, from COVID-19 at a hospital in Athens during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece.