Dimitris Kazakis

Dimitris Kazakis ( Greek Δημήτρης Καζάκης , born November 5, 1962 in Kalamata ) is a Greek politician and economist with a professional career in Greek and international companies. He is a founding member of the Enieo Pallaiko Metopo (United Popular Front, Ε.ΠΑ.Μ.), founded in 2011 , of which he is party secretary and party leader to this day.

He was a regular commentator for the Pontiki newspaper and the Hellenic Nexus magazine, as well as the editor of The Greek Pompei - The Chronicle of an Announced Bankruptcy . Kazakis has also worked for the newspaper To Choni and the Internet radio stations Radio choris FM and e-roi .

Career

Dimitris Kazakis comes from the Messinian Kalamata, where he spent the first eight years of his childhood. He then moved to Athens, where he graduated from school and studied economics at the Athens University of Economics (ASOEE). At the age of eighteen he joined the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), from which he finally resigned in 1996, disappointed. Kazakis has worked in management as an executive in companies.

In 2011, Kazakis took part in mass protests across the country against the “economic occupation” which, according to the Greek media and the party he founded as a result, threatened the country's sovereignty. together with Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos and other comrades-in-arms, he founded the United Popular Front, which he now heads as General Secretary. With his party he is trying to “establish a broad socio-political alliance” against the Troika and the economic and political oligarchy. He rejects any ideology or party political orientation, but his party is described as patriotic and sympathizes with the left-wing Syriza . In the parliamentary election in May 2012 , the party entered into a list connection; in the parliamentary election in Greece in September 2015 , Kazakis led his party independently in the election campaign. She got 0.77 percent of the vote.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Günther Lachmann: The suffering of the Greeks turns into anger. welt.de, December 28, 2014
2. ^ Edit Engelmann : 2013: "The second meeting of the revolutionaries of Vostitza". radio-kreta.de, July 27, 2013
3. ↑ Τι είναι και τι θέλει το ΕΠΑΜ ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (What is and what does EPAM want?) Party website, accessed February 12, 2017