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 George Chrysoveridis in 1987. [1] [3]
When George 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 several years as a member of the Town Council of Palaio Faliro until 2010. [6]
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