Yiannis Grivas

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Yiannis Grivas (also spelled Ioannis Grivas; Greek: Ιωάννης Γρίβας) (born 1923), Greek judge, was a non-party interim Prime Minister of Greece. Grivas was born in Kato Tithorea in the region of Lokris. He studied law at the University of Athens and in 1954 he became a judge. In 1979, he was appointed to the "Areios Pagos" (Supreme Court of Greece for Civil and Criminal Cases). He became vice-president of the court in 1986 and president in 1989.

In 1989, when the Greek Parliament was deadlocked between the PASOK and New Democracy parties, the Constitution requiring that the President of one of Greece's Supreme Courts be appointed interim Prime Minister, Grivas agreed to head a caretaker government to preside over fresh elections. He took office on October 11, 1989. After the elections produced another deadlocked Parliament, he resigned on November 23, 1989, in favour of Xenophon Zolotas, who formed a coalition government, in which all three Parliament parties participated. Grivas retired in 1990.

Preceded by Tzannis Tzannetakis	Prime Minister of Greece 1989	Succeeded by Xenophon Zolotas

Heads of Government of Greece

Revolutionary Greece (1821-1832)	Alexander Mavrocordatos \| Athanasios Kanakaris \| Petros Mavromichalis \| Georgios Kountouriotis \| Andreas Zaimis \| Ioannis Capodistrias \| Augustinos Kapodistrias
Kingdom of Greece (1832-1924)	Spyridon Trikoupis \| Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos \| Ioannis Kolettis \| Josef Ludwig von Armansperg \| Ignaz von Rundhart \| Otto of Greece \| Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos \| Otto of Greece \| Andreas Metaxas \| Constantine Kanaris \| Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos \| Ioannis Kolettis \| Kitsos Tzavelas \| Georgios Kountouriotis \| Constantine Kanaris \| Antonios Kriezis \| Constantine Kanaris \| Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos \| Dimitrios Voulgaris \| Athanasios Miaoulis \| Gennaios Kolokotronis \| Dimitrios Voulgaris \| Aristidis Moraitinis \| Zinovios Valvis \| Diomidis Kiriakos \| Benizelos Rouphos \| Dimitrios Voulgaris \| Constantine Kanaris \| Zinovios Valvis \| Constantine Kanaris \| Benizelos Rouphos \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \|Epameinontas Deligeorgis \| Benizelos Rouphos \| Dimitrios Voulgaris \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Aristidis Moraitinis \| Dimitrios Voulgaris \| Thrasivoulos Zaimis \| Epameinontas Deligeorgis \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Thrasivoulos Zaimis \| Dimitrios Voulgaris \| Epameinontas Deligeorgis \| Dimitrios Voulgaris \| Charilaos Trikoupis \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Epameinontas Deligeorgis \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Epameinontas Deligeorgis \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Constantine Kanaris \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Charilaos Trikoupis \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Charilaos Trikoupis \| Alexandros Koumoundouros \| Charilaos Trikoupis \| Theodoros Deligiannis \| Dimitrios Valvis \| Charilaos Trikoupis \| Theodoros Deligiannis \| Konstantinos Konstantopoulos \| Charilaos Trikoupis \| Sotirios Sotiropoulos \| Charilaos Trikoupis \| Nikolaos Deligiannis \| Theodoros Deligiannis \| Dimitrios Rallis \| Alexandros Zaimis \| Georgios Theotokis \| Alexandros Zaimis \| Theodoros Deligiannis \| Georgios Theotokis \| Dimitrios Rallis \| Georgios Theotokis \| Theodoros Deligiannis \| Dimitrios Rallis \| Georgios Theotokis \| Dimitrios Rallis \| Kiriakoulis Mavromichalis \| Stephanos Dragoumis \| Eleftherios Venizelos \| Dimitrios Gounaris \| Eleftherios Venizelos \| Alexandros Zaimis \| Stephanos Skouloudis \| Alexandros Zaimis \| Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos \| †Eleftherios Venizelos \| Spyridon Lambros \| Alexandros Zaimis \| Eleftherios Venizelos \| Dimitrios Rallis \| Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos \| Dimitrios Gounaris \| Nikolaos Stratos \| Petros Protopapadakis \| Nikolaos Triantaphillakos \| Anastasios Charalambis \| Sotirios Krokidas \| Stylianos Gonatas \| Eleftherios Venizelos \| Georgios Kaphantaris
Second Hellenic Republic (1924-1935)	Alexandros Papanastasiou \| Themistoklis Sophoulis \| Andreas Michalakopoulos \| §Theodoros Pangalos \| §Athanasios Eftaxias \| Georgios Kondylis \| Alexandros Zaimis \| Eleftherios Venizelos \| Alexandros Papanastasiou \| Eleftherios Venizelos \| Panagis Tsaldaris \| Eleftherios Venizelos \| Alexandros Othonaios \| Panagis Tsaldaris \| Georgios Kondylis
Kingdom of Greece (1935-1967/74)	Konstantinos Demertzis \| Ioannis Metaxas \| Alexandros Koryzis \| †Emmanouil Tsouderos \| ^Georgios Tsolakoglu \| ^Konstantinos Logothetopoulos \| ^Ioannis Rallis \| †Evripidis Mpakirtzis \| †Sophoklis Venizelos \| †Alexandros Svolos \| †George Papandreou \| Nikolaos Plastiras \| Petros Voulgaris \| Archbishop Damaskinos \| Panagiotis Kanellopoulos \| Themistoklis Sophoulis \| Panagiotis Poulitsas \| Konstantinos Tsaldaris \| Dimitrios Maximos \| Konstantinos Tsaldaris \| Themistoklis Sophoulis \| †Markos Vafiadis \| †Nikolaos Zachariadis \| †Dimitrios Partsalidis \| Alexandros Diomidis \| Ioannis Theotokis \| Sophoklis Venizelos \| Nikolaos Plastiras \| Sophoklis Venizelos \| Nikolaos Plastiras \| Dimitrios Kiousopoulos \| Alexander Papagos \| Constantine Karamanlis \| Konstantinos Georgakopoulos \| Constantine Karamanlis \| Konstantinos Dovas \| Constantine Karamanlis \| Panagiotis Pipinelis \| Stylianos Mavromichalis \| George Papandreou \| Ioannis Paraskevopoulos \| George Papandreou \| Georgios Athanasiadis–Novas \| Ilias Tsirimokos \| Stephanos Stephanopoulos \| Ioannis Paraskevopoulos \| Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
Military Junta (1967-1974)	§Konstantinos Kollias \| §Georgios Papadopoulos \| §Spiros Markezinis \| §Adamantios Androutsopoulos
Third Hellenic Republic (1974-)	Constantine Karamanlis \| George Rallis \| Andreas Papandreou \| Tzannis Tzannetakis \| Yiannis Grivas \| Xenophon Zolotas \| Constantine Mitsotakis \| Andreas Papandreou \| Costas Simitis \| Kostas Karamanlis
	§ denotes head of a military government † denotes head of a rival government not controlling Athens ^ denotes head of government during the Axis Occupation