Dimitris Kapsanis

Dimitris Kapsanis is a Greek lawyer and politician who served four times as the mayor of Palaio Faliro, one of the municipalities in the greater Athens, Greece area.[1]

He first assumed the mayoralty on 6 April 1975 and was re-elected in 1978 and 1982, then made a comeback with a fourth term starting in January 1999.[1]

A lawyer by trade, he was elected mayor of Palaio Faliro in the first municipal elections after the fall of the Greek Junta, gaining 50.4% of the vote, succeeding D. Bavarezos.[2] After three terms he was succeeded by Georgios Chrysoveridis in 1987.[1][3]

When Chrysoveridis retired, he again stood for mayor in the 1998 election, winning in the second round with 52.3% of the vote, at the head of the Independent Alliance "Faliro".[4] In the municipal elections of 2002 he was knocked out in the first round, coming third with 21.7%, while Dionysis Hatzidakis went on to be elected in the second round with 53.6%, at the head of the alliance named “New Force for Faliro”.[5]

He continued for some years as a member of the Town Council of Palaio Faliro, until 2010.[6]

References
  1. http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/ retrieved July 2015
  2. Ανατολή, 29/3/1975, σελ. 1
  3. Palaio Faliro municipality http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/Default.aspx?id=2124&nt=18&lang=1 Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine retrieved July 2015
  4. See web site of the Ministry of the Interior http://www.ypes.gr/el/Elections/CityElections/ResultsofElections/1998/ retrieved July 2015
  5. http://www.ypes.gr/el/Elections/CityElections/ResultsofElections/2002/ retrieved July 2015
  6. http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/Default.aspx?id=2124&nt=18&lang=1 Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine retrieved July 2015
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