The candidacy for the position of President of the Lawyers’ Association of Athens, in the upcoming November-December elections, was announced today by the attorney and Counselor of the Athens Bar Association, Dimitris Chr. Anastasopoulos. His candidacy, as he stated, is supported so far by two combinations of the “With the Lawyer” faction, consisting of 24 candidates each, as well as one more new bar association.

In his nomination statement, which was posted on social media today, Dimitris Anastasopoulos briefly reviewed his eleven-year term as a member of the AIA Board of Directors and his two previous candidacies for the position of President in 2017 and 2021, respectively. He stressed that throughout these years, from 2014 until today, he has tried to be useful and beneficial to the legal profession and to each lawyer. Expressing his opinion freely and without prejudice and building a relationship of trust and honesty, which he has never betrayed.

Dimitris Anastasopoulos also pointed out that he never participated in discussions in exchange for office, nor did he use the IOA to achieve political goals. “I pledge to follow the same course now,” he said. He also clarified that in the coming period, he and his colleagues will present their positions and plan for the present and future of the legal profession.

Referring to his moves in the coming months, Dimitris Anastasopoulos stressed that he will invite all his runners-up to debate programmatically: “on how we imagine the legal profession in the next few years, with proposals and arguments, with respect and ethics, so that the next day we can go forward united, for the good of lawyers”. He even placed particular emphasis on the “next day, which is already looking grim”, given that in the coming four years the country’s bar associations will be called upon to manage a new reality, with future graduates of the new private law schools, which will require brave decisions.

“I call on the lawyers of Athens to support my candidacy, without artificial divisions, enclosures and exclusions, but on a path, with ethics, with dignity – without the slightest discount to the prestige and credibility of the profession – with experience and with militancy – in practice, in the field, but not in words, with crowns and rhetoric”, he stressed, closing his statement.