Konstantinos Alavanos, politician and lawyer, died at the age of 76 from pathological causes.

He was born in Athens on February 27, 1946 in the family of an influential Cycladic politician: the son of Nikolaos Alavanos and the grandson of Konstantinos Alavanos. His brother is Alekos Alavanos while he was the eldest of 6 siblings.

He studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, where he was an active member of the students’ union, participated in the polytechnical uprising, and was the organizer of popular meetings, for which he was tried in 1966 in Heraklion, Crete and in 1967 in Tinos.

In the government of national unity in 1974, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Public Works, and in the parliamentary elections of 1974 he was elected a member of parliament from the Center Union – New Forces. He was re-elected in the 1977 elections but lost those 1981 elections when the Center collapsed and the vast majority of his voters went to PASOK. In the same year, Alavanos, a close friend of Melina Mercouri, took over as General Secretary of the Ministry of Culture until 1987.

In 1997, he was named CEO of ET1 and remained in that position until 2001. Finally, from 2003 to 2008 he was the general director of the Parliament TV channel.