1. Panagis Tsaldaris was a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece twice.
21 Facts About Panagis Tsaldaris
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Panagis Tsaldaris was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years of the conservative People's Party in the period before World War II.
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Panagis Tsaldaris was the husband of Lina Tsaldari, a Greek suffragist, member of Parliament, and the Minister for Social Welfare.
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Panagis Tsaldaris studied in the Law School of the University of Athens and, being an excellent student, he continued his studies abroad, among other places in Berlin and Paris.
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In 1919, Panagis Tsaldaris married the daughter of the university professor Spyridon Lambrou, Lina Panagis Tsaldaris, who stood by him during all his life and remained politically active, even after her husband's death.
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Panagis Tsaldaris entered politics in 1910, when he was elected for the first time to the Parliament for Corinth.
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Panagis Tsaldaris would be successively reelected to Parliament until his death in 1936.
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Nonetheless, after the return of Venizelos and the self-exile of the King in 1917, Panagis Tsaldaris was imprisoned and then exiled in various islands of the Aegean Sea.
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Panagis Tsaldaris formed his first government in 1932, along with Georgios Kondylis and Ioannis Metaxas, after he had first officially recognized the outcome of the plebiscite of 1924 which established the Second Hellenic Republic.
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Nevertheless, his government was overturned and Panagis Tsaldaris formed a new government on 10 March 1933 after his victory in the elections of 1933.
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Panagis Tsaldaris confronted with success the military movement of Nikolaos Plastiras, but because of this crisis an interim government under the leadership of Lieutenant General Alexandros Othonaios was appointed.
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Panagis Tsaldaris had no involvement and condemned the criminal attack, but members of his party and close supporters were deemed responsible for the assault.
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Panagis Tsaldaris denounced such statements, which caused the outrage of the Liberals.
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In one of the noteworthy acts of his second premiership, Panagis Tsaldaris signed a quadripartite pact with Turkey, Romania and Yugoslavia as well as a separate agreement with Turkey, guaranteeing the common borders of the two countries.
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On October 10,1935, Kondylis and the commanders of the Armed Forces called on Panagis Tsaldaris and demanded his resignation.
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Panagis Tsaldaris was revered for his moderation as a royalist and right-wing politician.
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When he saw the burden of political instability, Panagis Tsaldaris preferred to step down instead of exacerbating the turmoil.
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Panagis Tsaldaris had once said: "I was always anti-Venizelist and royalist but, at the same time, I always remained lawful ", a combination difficult to be achieved, as the dramatic events of 1935 proved.
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And, although Panagis Tsaldaris portrayed himself as anti-Venizelist, the truth is that he had some common traits with Venizelos: They were both anti-popularist and anti-extremist.
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The problem was that Panagis Tsaldaris lacked Venizelos' charisma and the popular appeal of his main political opponent.
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Venizelos marked a whole era and provoked intense passions; Panagis Tsaldaris' passing through history was much more quiet.