PANAGIOTIS
PAPALIGOURAS
Panagiotis Papaligouras was a Greek politician who served several times as a minister and once as Governor of the Bank of Greece.
He was born in Corfu and studied law, as well as political and economic sciences, at the University of Athens and the University of Geneva.
Panagiotis Papaligouras served as Deputy Minister and Minister of Trade, as well as Minister of Coordination in the government of Alexandros Papagos.
Under the ERE party of Konstantinos Karamanlis, he served again as Minister of Trade until he resigned due to disagreement over the electoral law used in the 1958 elections, in which the EDA became the second-largest party.
In the 1958 elections he ran as a candidate with the People’s Party. He later served in various governments as Minister of Coordination and Minister of National Defence, until the military coup of April 21, 1967, which caught him by surprise.
After the restoration of democracy, he was appointed Governor of the Bank of Greece from August to October 1974. He later re-entered politics with New Democracy and served as Minister of Coordination and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the two governments of Konstantinos Karamanlis.