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'''Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas''' was a [[Greece|Greek]] politician and writer.
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#REDIRECT[[Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza]]
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Averoff was born in [[Trikala]], [[Thessaly]], in [[1910]] however, his family origins were from [[Metsovo]] in [[Epirus]]. He studied law and political science in Lausanne, Switzerland.
 
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Averoff first held office in February [[1941]] when he was appointed prefect ("nomarch") of [[Corfu]] [[prefecture]]. He left the post after Corfu was occupied but not before organising a resistance movement to the Italian occupying force. In the next year ([[April 28]], [[1942]], Averoff was arrested by the Italians for resistance-related activities and was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Italy.
 
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When the [[World War II|war]] was over, Averoff resumed his political career as member of Parliament from [[Ioannina prefecture|Ioannina]] and Minister in several governments ([[Alexandros Diomedes]], [[Sophoklis Venizelos]], [[Nikolaos Plastiras]]) before switching his allegiance from the political Centre to the conservative [[National Radical Union]] (ERE).
 
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Averoff continued serving as MP and Minister under [[Constantine Karamanlis]] and briefly under [[Panagiotis Kanellopoulos]]. When the Kanellopoulos government was overthrown by a coup d' etat, on [[April 21]], [[1967]], Averoff started writing and established the Averoff Foundation. However, he also stayed in touch with politics, publishing and distributing underground material and also being Karamanlis' (who was in Paris) eyes and ears in Greece.
 
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When democracy was restored to Greece in [[1974]], Averoff became Karamanlis' Foreign Minister serving in that post also in the government of [[George Rallis]].
 
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In December [[1981]], after the defeat of the [[New Democracy]] party, George Rallis resigned as party leader and Averoff was elected to succeed him. He relinquished the leadership of the New Democracy party in [[1984]] but continued his political career until his death on [[January 2]], [[1990]].
 
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[[Category:1910 births|Averoff, Evangelos]]
 
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[[Category:1990 deaths|Averoff, Evangelos]]
 
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[[Category:Greek politicians|Averoff, Evangelos]]
 

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