Education
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He is the leader of the Democratic Left party. He was born in Volos. He was Minister for Justice in the 1989 government of Tzannis Tzannetakis.
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.