Dimitrios Papadimoulis

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Dimitrios Papadimoulis (2014)

Dimitrios Papadimoulis , Greek Δημήτρης Παπαδημούλης (born March 21, 1955 in Athens ) is a Greek politician ( Syriza ). Papadimoulis was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 and again since 2014. He has also been one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament since 2014 and was re-elected in 2017 and 2019.

Life

education

Papadimoulis was born on March 21, 1955 in Athens, where he also grew up. After finishing school at the Varvaiko School, he studied engineering at the National Technical University of Athens thanks to a scholarship . He then worked as an engineer and businessman from 1980 to 2004.

Political engagement in Greece

Papadimoulis has been politically active since his youth. He was a member of the presidium of the Central Committee of the Greek Student Union (1976–1979) and belonged, among other things, to the communist youth organization Rigas Feraios.

In later years he was involved in the leadership of the Eurocommunist party ΚΚΕ Εσωτερικού and the successor party Elliniki Aristera . Papadimoulis was a member of the committee that prepared the electoral alliance between Elliniki Aristera and the traditional communist party for the 1989 elections under the title “Coalition of the Left and Progress”. Papadimoulis stayed after the break of the electoral alliance and accompanied the transformation of the party into the Synaspismos and the later, today's Synaspismos Rizospastikis Aristeras (SYRIZA).

First election to the European Parliament

Ulrike Lunacek (left) and Dimitrios Papadimoulis receive an anti-CETA petition in their capacity as Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament (2017)

In 2004 the then Synaspismos nominated him for the European elections. The party won a good 4 percent and thus only one of the 21 Greek mandates. Papadimoulis joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left , and was elected to the Group Bureau. In the 6th electoral term (2004–2009) he was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007–2009). He was also an alternate member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (2004-2007), the Subcommittee on Human Rights , the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Temporary Committee on the Political Challenges and Budgetary Means of the Enlarged Union 2007-2013 .

In 2009 he switched back to Greek politics and ran for parliamentary elections . There he won a mandate for Syriza, which he held until 2014. During that time he was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .

Re-election to the European Parliament

Papadimoulis in the European Parliament (2019)

In the 2014 elections, Papadimoulis ran again for the European Parliament. Due to the political upheavals caused by the European economic crisis and its consequences in Greece, Syriza, for which he was running, won a huge leap: With 26.5 percent, the party now held 6 of the 21 Greek mandates. Papadimoulis rejoined the GUE / NGL parliamentary group, for which he was re-elected to the board. Likewise, the majority of MEPs in the European Parliament elected him one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of Parliament , and in the third ballot he received 302 of the 690 valid votes. Apart from these tasks, he was also a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs for his parliamentary group and a deputy member of the Committee on Regional Development and the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and other measures of a similar nature or effect . In January 2017, halfway through the electoral term, the vice-presidents were newly or re-elected; Papadimoulis won 469 out of 638 valid votes.

His party nominated him again for the 2019 European elections , Syriza won 23.7 percent and thus still 6 of the 21 Greek mandates. In the constituent session of the European Parliament, the MEPs re-elected him as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of Parliament. He received 401 of the 663 votes in the second ballot and is the only Vice-President of the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left . He is also a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, the Budget Committee and a deputy member of the Committee on Regional Development.

Web links

Commons : Dimitrios Papadimoulis  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 6th legislative term | Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ Fourteen Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament elected | News | European Parliament. January 7, 2014, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 8th legislative term | Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  4. ^ Parliament's mid-term election: 14 Vice-Presidents and 5 Quaestors elected | News | European Parliament. January 18, 2017, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  5. ^ The new European Parliament Vice-Presidents | News | European Parliament. March 7, 2019, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 9th legislative term | Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Papadimoulis, Dimitrios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens