17 Facts About Charilaos Trikoupis

Charilaos Trikoupis was a Greek politician who served as a Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895.

Charilaos Trikoupis is best remembered for introducing the vote of confidence in the Greek constitution, proposing and funding such ambitious and modern projects as the construction of the Corinth Canal, but eventually leading the country to bankruptcy.

Charilaos Trikoupis wrote that the political instability, which characterized public life was due to the privilege of the Crown as far as the appointment and ousting of governments was concerned.

Charilaos Trikoupis's government was relatively stable and lasted for more than three years.

Charilaos Trikoupis was a strong believer in the need to create an infrastructure to support the economy, and to attract foreign investment.

Charilaos Trikoupis's difficulties were now increased by the large expenditure that had been incurred for military preparations while he had been out of office as the result of the union effected between Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

Charilaos Trikoupis nevertheless believed that he could raise the value of Greek paper currency to par in a short time, and all his calculations were based upon that assumption.

Charilaos Trikoupis was defeated at the 1885 general election, but in the following year he resumed office and again took up the cause of economic and financial reform.

Coincidentally, Charilaos Trikoupis died during the first week of the Athens 1896 Olympics.

Charilaos Trikoupis's sixth turn in office was a dramatic one.

Charilaos Trikoupis stood before parliament and made the most famous statement of his career: "Unfortunately, we are bankrupt".

Charilaos Trikoupis was again in power from November 11,1893 until January 24,1895.

Charilaos Trikoupis was skeptical about the games as he feared that the country could not shoulder the cost.

Charilaos Trikoupis was convinced, eventually, to host them and made the needed arrangements.

Charilaos Trikoupis tried to make terms with the creditors of his nation, but he failed in that too.

At the general election, four months later, he and his Modernist Party were astoundingly defeated by his main political rival, Theodoros Deligiannis, and Charilaos Trikoupis did not even manage to win a seat in the parliament.

Charilaos Trikoupis is considered one of the greatest modern Greek politicians for his reformist and modernising programs as well as for the introduction of the dedilomeni principle.