"Andreas Fantis"

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Andreas Fantis was a Greek Cypriot politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the Famagusta Electoral District elected with AKEL in 1970–1991.

Biographical data
Andreas Fantis was born in Kaimakli on 19 April 1919. He was Secretary-General of the Pancyprian Guild Committee (1941–1943), professional executive of AKEL and director of the newspaper Haravgi (1962–1977).

He had two sons and a daughter. His son was Akesh Fantes. He died on March 5, 2012.

Path Policy
At a young age he worked as a builder. He was a founding member of the Association of builders and workers of Nicosia, in which he was elected secretary. In 1939 the guild, via strike, won the eight-hour for builders. In 1941 he was elected general secretary of the Pancyprian Guild Committee.

He then became a member of the Communist Party of Cyprus. In 1941 he participated in the founding meeting of AKEL. He was a member of the party's Central Committee, the Political Office and the Central Secretariat. In addition, he served as Provincial Secretary of AKEL Famagusta, Central Organizing Secretary of AKEL and Assistant Secretary General of the Central Committee of AKEL (1960-1986).

He was elected MP in the 1970 parliamentary election in the Famagusta Electoral District with AKEL for the Second Parliamentary Period. He was re-elected Member of Parliament in the 1976 parliamentary elections for the Third Parliamentary Period, the 1981 parliamentary elections for the Fourth Parliamentary Period and the 1985 parliamentary elections for the Fifth Parliamentary Period.

In 1990, due to disagreements, he left AKEL along with four other party MPs and other executives, who founded the Renaissance Democratic Socialist Movement (ADISOK). In the 1991 parliamentary elections ADISOK failed to elect a Member.

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Members elected by the ACPL
Famagusta MPs
Cypriot trade unionists
Members of Parliament (Cyprus)
MPs III Parliamentary Period (Cyprus)
MPs of the Fourth Parliamentary Period (Cyprus)
MPs V Parliamentary Period (Cyprus)