Nikos Kleanthous, a former member of Parliament for the Democratic Party, has passed away at the age of 78.

Nikos Kleanthous was born in Larnaca on March 23, 1948. He studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and worked as a lawyer.

In 1976, he was one of the founding members of DIKO. He served as chairman of the DIKO Larnaca District Committee. In 1977, the cabinet, under the chairmanship of Archbishop Makarios, appointed him to the Commission of Inquiry for the Purge regarding the 1974 coup.

He served as secretary of the Larnaca School Board and as a member of the disciplinary committee of the Cyprus Football Federation (CFF), as well as a member of the Patient Welfare Council of Larnaca General Hospital. He served as a member of the Executive Bureau and the Central Committee of DIKO. In 1998, he was elected deputy president of DIKO, a position he held until 2006.On October 22, 2006, he ran for the presidency of DIKO in internal party elections; Marios Karoyian was ultimately elected to that position.

In the 1996 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the House of Representatives from the Larnaca Electoral District as a member of DIKO for the 7th Parliamentary Term. He was re-elected in the 2001 parliamentary elections for the 8th Parliamentary Term and in the 2006 parliamentary elections for the 9th Parliamentary Term.

In the 2011 municipal elections, he ran for mayor of Larnaca with the support of AKEL and DIKO, but was not elected.