Tzannis Tzannetakis

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

Naval officer and Greek military dictatorship

Tzannetakis pursue a career in the Navy. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he was a naval officer commander of the gunboat Lakos and later a submarine. One day after the coup by Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos on 22 April 1967, he resigned from active military service. During the military dictatorship established by Papadopoulos it was in 1969-1971 in prison. He then went into exile.

Political career

MP and LP official

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

In 1982, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Mayor of Athens. He then spent four years as Head of the Political Department of the Municipal ND and several times later Manager of the election campaigns of the ND (1989, 1993 and 1996).

Ministers and Prime Minister

From May 1980 to the defeat of the ND against the PASOK in October 1981 Tzannetakis was Minister of Public Works in the Cabinet of Georgios Rallis.

After the election victory of ND in the parliamentary elections of June he was on 2 July 1989 as a successor of Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister, as the then leader of the ND Konstantinos Mitsotakis could not form a single-party government for a Electoral Reform previously adopted by PASOK and no wanted to form coalition government. Tzannetakis formed a coalition government with the left-wing alliance Synaspismos, the then even the Communist Party of Greece (KKE ) belonged. In his cabinet he was also Secretary of State. From 2 July 1989 to 13 February 1990, he was also Minister of Tourism. After Synaspismos had renounced his support, Tzannetakis resigned as Prime Minister on 11 October 1989.

In the subsequent parliamentary elections, the ND reached 46 percent of the vote and was thus in front of PASOK, who received 40 percent of the vote. In the cabinet of the following on his successor Ioannis Grivas Xenophon Zolotas, which 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 Defence and tourism. After this coalition also because of disagreements resigned after just four months on April 11, 1990, the ND went with 8 percent of votes ahead of PASOK from the third parliamentary elections within a year out.

In the subsequent ruling with only two majority cabinet headed by the chairman of the ND, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Tzannetakis was, until October 13, 1993 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State. At times (1990 to 1991) he was also Minister of Culture.

Publications

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

• " Mani ". ( Translation of a book by Patrick Leigh Fermour ), 1973
• " Upanishads ". (Translation ), 1991
• " Choros esti tes agoras ", 1994
• "India: Another Way of Life", 1998

Biographical sources and background information

• Biography on the website of the National Assembly
• List of ministers of the Cabinet in 1989
• "World Notes GREECE ", article in TIME Magazine 17 July 1989

Comments

Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis Deputy Prime Minister: Tzannis Tzannetakis, Athanasios Kanellopoulos ( to 21 February 1992) Minister: Foreign Minister: Andonis Samaras from 14 April 1992: Konstantinos Mitsotakis from 7 August 1992: Michalis Papakonstantinou Defense Minister Ioannis Varvitsiotis Minister to the Prime Minister: Miltiadis Evert from 31 October 1991: Sotirios Kouvelas Economy Minister Georgios Souflias from 1 October 1990: Konstantinos Mitsotakis from 8 August 1991: Efthymios Christodoulos from 17 February 1992: Stefanos Manos from 7 August 1992: Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas from August 7, 1992: Stefanos Manos Interior Minister: Sotirios Kouvelas from August 8, 1991: Nikolaos Klitos from 3 December 1992, Ioannis Kefalogiannis from September 14, 1993: Ioannis Georgakis Minister of Public Order: Ioannis Vasiliadis from 8 August 1991: Theodoros Agnostopoulos from 3 December 1992: Nikolaos Gelestathis from 14 September 1993: Dimitrios Manikas Minister of Culture: Tzannis Tzannetakis from 8 August 1991: Anna Benaki - Psaroula from 7 December 1992: Dora Bakogianni Agriculture Minister Michalis Papakonstantinou from August 8, 1991: Sotirios Kouvelas from October 31, 1991: Sotirios Chatzigakis from November 27th, 1992 Christos Koskinas Minister of Justice: Athanasios Kanellopoulos from August 8, 1991: Michalis Papakonstantinou from August 7, 1992: Ioannis Varvitsiotis from 3 December 1992 Anna Benaki - Psaroula from September 14, 1993: Georgios Plagianakos Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs: Vasilios Kondogiannopoulos from January 10, 1991: Georgios Souflias Labour Minister: Aristides KALANTZAKOS Minister of Health and Social Security: Marietta Giannakou from August 8, 1991: Georgios Sourlas from 3 December 1992 Dimitrios Sioufas Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology ( until 8 August 1991 ): Stavros Dimas Trade Minister ( until 8 August 1991 ): Athanasios Xarchas Minister of Trade, Industry, Energy and Technology (since 8 August 1991 ): Andreas Andrianopoulos from 7 August 1992: Ioannis Paleokrassas from 3 December 1992: Vasilios Kondogiannopoulos Minister of Transport and Communications: Nikolaos Gelestathis from 3 December 1992, Theodoros Anagostopoulos Merchant Marine Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis from 1 October 1990: Aristotelis Pavlidis from 3 December 1992, Alexandros Papadongas Aegean Minister Georgios Misailidis from August 8, 1991: Konstantinos Mitsotakis Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works: Stefanos Manos on August 8, 1991: Achilleas Karamanlis Minister of Macedonia and Thrace: Georgios Tzitzikostas from 8 August 1991: Panagiotis Chatzinikolaou | Tourism Minister Georgios Souflias from May 1990: Ioannis Kefalogiannis | Minister of State (as of 7 August 1992 ) Andreas Andrianopoulos | Minister without Portfolio: Ioannis Kefalogiannis

• Prime Minister (Greece )
• Member of Parliament (Greece )
• ND Member
• Greek
• Born 1927
• Died in 2010
• Man
• Deputy Prime Minister (Greece )