Dimitrios Gounaris
Gounaris himself, however, joined the government in 1908 as Finance Minister, hoping to implement a reformist program,[3] thereby causing the dissolution of the group, although he was soon forced to resign.[4] Despite his progressive views (he was an admirer of the Bismarckian German social laws), his conservative political thinking turned him into a leading opponent of Eleftherios Venizelos.[4] He managed to escape to Sardinia, Italy, in 1918, but was able to return to Greece only in 1920, as to partake in the crucial November elections as the de facto leader of the "United Opposition",[6] amidst the ongoing 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War.After Venizelos' defeat, Gounaris controlled most deputies in the parliament, and was the main driving force of the following royalist governments,[6] but himself only assumed the office of Prime Minister in March 1921.[1] Although Gounaris undoubtedly bears a measure of responsibility for the military and diplomatic actions that led to the Greek defeat in 1922, his trial and execution are widely perceived[8] to be more an act of scapegoating in order to vent the anger of the people, as well as being mostly motivated by the hatred of the Venizelist faction towards him.
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