Fotios-Fanourios Kouvelis (born 3 September 1948) is a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 lawyer and politician and independent Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

. He is the leader of the Democratic Left

Democratic Left (Greece)

Democratic Left is a Greek democratic socialist political party.It emerged, in June 2010, when the members of the moderate Renewal Wing platform left the Coalition of the Left of Movements and Ecology, or Synaspismos, at its 6th congress.-Principles:...

 party.

He was born in Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

. 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)

Communist Party of Greece (Interior)

The Communist Party of Greece, Interior , usually abbreviated as KKE Interior was a communist political party in Greece. The party was formed after a major split of the Communist Party of Greece in 1968...

, serving, from 1975 until the party's demise, on its central committee. He was a founding member of the Greek Left

Greek Left

Greek Left was a Greek leftwing political party.It emerged, in January 1987, from the split in the Communist Party of Greece into the Communist Party of Greece -Renewing Left and the Greek Left. Its ideology was Eurocommunism....

 party, in 1987, and was elected its general secretary on 25 June 1989, remaining in this position until 1992.

He was Minister for Justice

Minister for Justice (Greece)

The Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights is a government department of Greece entrusted with the supervision of the country's legal and judicial system. It was founded as the State Justice Secretariat in April 1833, and was known as the Ministry of Justice until October 2009...

 in the 1989 government of Tzannis Tzannetakis

Tzannis Tzannetakis

Tzannis Tzannetakis was a Greek politician who was briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the political crisis of 1989.-Biography:Tzannetakis was born in Gytheio in the region of Mani in 1927...

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External links

• Biography on Greek Parliament website (in Greek)