Foivos Ioannidis, lawyer and former member of parliament, died at the age of 88 PASOK. The news of the death was announced by his son Giannis Ioannidis with a post on Facebook.
In this post, he says: “A full life ended just before “Christ is Risen”. Our father Phoebus Ioannidis died last night. As he had chosen, he will be buried in his hometown of Sitia at a time to be announced soon.”
Phoivos Ioannidis, born in Sitia on March 14, 1936, served as an MP for Lasithi with PASOK from 1989 to 2004. He served as a member of PASOK governments, while developing a rich trade union activity from a very young age. During the period of the dictatorship, his action against the junta was intense and for this reason he was arrested and imprisoned.
He was elected for the first time as a Member of Parliament for Lasithi with PASOK in June 1989. He was re-elected in the elections of 1990, 1993, 199 and 2000. For the first time he became Deputy Minister (Health, Welfare and Social Insurance) in the government of Andreas Papandreou from 13 October 1993 to September 15, 1995.
In the first government of Kostas Simitis in January 1996, Ioannidis assumed the position of Deputy Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology, from January 22 to February 1, 1996.
For the last time he was deputy minister in the government of Kostas Simitis, from October 30, 1998 to April 13, 2000 (Labour and Social Insurance). In 2004 he retired from politics.
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