Dimitris Tsovolas is a politican in Greece.

Born in a village outside Arta, Epiros, Greece in 1941. Originally a member of PASOK, He served as the country's Finance Minister during the 1980s when he followed controversial policies. Ambracia (more correctly Ampracia) was an ancient Corinthian colony, situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf in Greece, on a bend of the navigable river Aracthus (or Aratthus), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain. ... Party logo The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, better known as PASOK (Greek: Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima, ΠΑΣΟΚ), is a Greek social democratic political party. ...

During the election campaign of May-June 1989, the then Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, widely expected to lose the elections as he did, said: "Tsovola, dos'ta ola" (give it all away) referring to high salary increases for civil servants in an attempt to remain in power. However, this ploy did not work. And Tsovolas was among those former PASOK ministers indicted over the summer of 1989 over fiscal irregularities related to the Koskotas and the Bank of Crete scandals, as well the famous corn scandal in which Yugoslav corn was allegedly imported into Greece and allegedly resold to western Europe as Greek. He was found guilty and received suspended jail sentence and was deprived of his political and civil rights for 5 years. At the end of the sentence 1995, he founded a separate party called DIKKI. DIKKI did well in the September 1996 elections for a new party and got around 4% of the vote and six seats by positioning itself as the left-wing, social-democratic alternative to the now New Labour-like PASOK. However, the party failed to capitalise on its success and was seen as out of date and out of touch by most voters in the election of 2000 and 2004. After those last one, Tsovolas suspended the party's activities and decided to retire from active politics 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... Andreas Papandreou Andreas Georgios Papandreou, Ανδρέας Γ. Παπανδρέου (15 February 1919 - 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist and politician. ... Party logo The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, better known as PASOK (Greek: Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima, ΠΑΣΟΚ), is a Greek social democratic political party. ... The Democratic Social Movement (Greek: Dimokratiko Koinoniko Kinima (), Δημοκρατικο Κοινωνικο Κινημα ()) was a Greek democratic socialist political party. ... New Labour is an alternative name of the British political Labour Party. ...