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"Virginia Chutherou"

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Virginia Chutherou (24 June 1924 – 11 June 2018) was a Greek economist, journalist and politician, daughter of Prime Minister Emmanuel Chutherou. He was, among other things, a Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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Born 24 June 1924 in Heraklion Crete. He studied philosophy, economics and political sciences at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, as well as public and regional development economics at the universities of Minnesota and Radcliffe-Harvard in the US.

Among other things he was an expert at the UN International Health and Food Organization during 1949–56, and then a journalist and columnist in the newspapers "The Step" and "Freedom". In the last government of George Papandreou, from February 1964 until July 1965, he was an economic advisor to Andreas Papandreou, originally to the Ministry of Government Presidency and then to the Ministry of Coordination. By her own mediation, Angela Kokkola became special secretary of Andreas Papandreou, in 1964.

During the colonels' junta he had resistance activity as general secretary of the Society for the Study of Greek Problems (SME), resulting in him being arrested and detained in EBA-ESA.

After the restoration of democracy in the summer of 1974, he was a founding member of the movement of the "New Political Forces", which worked with the Centre Association (Union Centre - New Forces). He was elected MP II of Athens (rest of former Municipality of Athens) in the first post-dictatorial elections in November 1974. In the 1977 election he was re-elected Member of Parliament II of Athens, with the Democratic Centre Association.

In the 1982 Municipal Election he was nominated Mayor of Athens supported by the Party of Democratic Socialism. She won the first round 13,283 votes (count 3.29%) and herself as head of her combination was elected municipal councillor.

In 1985 he worked with the New Republic of Constantine Mitsotakis and returned to Parliament, as Mitsotakis placed it in an elected position on the ballot of State. In June 1989 he was elected to First Athens, while in November 1989 and 1990 he was elected again with the State ballot.

In the government of Mitsotakis, he was Deputy Foreign Minister from August 1991 to October 1993. In fact, as of July 1992 he had as Head Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Papakonstantinou, also an old director of the Centre Union and associate of George Papandreou.

In February 1993 due to her mismanagement she revealed the action of Stephen Lalas, a Greek-American double spy who acted for the interests of Greece.

He used Vice-President of Amnesty International, as well as a member of the Association of Greek Scientists, the National Council of Greek Women, the Greek branch of the International Social Service etc.

He was also a member of the Greek delegation to the UN for the Cyprus issue (1976), and received