Ioannis Christou

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| name               = Ioannis Christou
| image              = Athanasakis Nikos.jpg
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| office             = Prime Minister of the Republic of Theodoro
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| term_start         = 18 November 1995
| term_end           = 17 January 1999
| predecessor = Dimitris Tasoulas
| successor = Pavlos Ioannidis
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| office2            = Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Theodoro
| term_start2        = 18 November 1989
| term_end2          = 18 November 1992
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| birth_date      = 23 October 1933
| birth_place     = Doros, Crimean ASSR, USSR
| death_date      = 2 July 2005 (age 71)
| death_place     = Doros, [[Theodorous and the Parathalassias)
| party           = Populares (after 1989)
| otherparty = Hellenic Self-Determination Front (before 1989)
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}} Ioannis Christou (1933-2005) was a Theodoran politician who served as the second Prime Minister of the Theodoran Republic, succeeding Dimitris Tasoulas. Formerly a noted anti-Soviet activist, he and his brother, Giorgios Christou, played a major part in securing Theodoran independence from the USSR. After his brother was elected as the first Theodoran President, Ioannis assumed the leadership of the former's social-liberal Populares party. Ioannis led the Populares in the 1992 election, increasing its seat count but failing to win a plurality. In the 1995 election, Ioannis again led the Populares, this time winning them an absolute majority. Ioannis was subsequently sworn in as Prime Minister, becoming the first (and thus far only) member of his party to hold the office. After the 1998 election yielded a hung parliament, Ioannis opted to call a snap election, in which the Populares were heavily defeated. Ioannis subsequently resigned as Prime Minister. In 2004, it was revealed that Ioannis had been involved in the embezzlement of several million euros in state funds, and charges were filed against him; however, he died in 2005, before he had been convicted of any crime.