Panagiotis Lafazanis

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Panagiotis Lafazanis during a protest against the reform policy of the previous government

Panagiotis Lafazanis ( Greek Παναγιώτης Λαφαζάνης , born November 19, 1951 in Elefsina ) is a Greek politician . From 2000 to 2015 he was a member of the Greek parliament ( direct mandate Piraeus B), belonged to the left party alliance SYRIZA , was its deputy party chairman and was its parliamentary manager until the early general election in 2015 . On August 21, 2015, he and 24 other SYRIZA MPs split from the party and founded the new Volkseinheit (LAE) group, which narrowly missed entry into parliament.

From January 27 to July 17, 2015, Lafazanis was one of the ten heads of departments in the first Greek cabinet under Alexis Tsipras, as Environment and Energy Minister .

Personal

Lafazanis dropped out of university in mathematics. He is married to Fryni Dialeti and has three daughters.

Political activities

Lafazanis took an active part in the resistance against the Greek military junta and is considered the ringleader of the occupation of Athens University in 1973, which earned him a six-month prison sentence. He also sat on the Central Council of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) and was a member of the Central Political Committee and from 1992 - until its dissolution in 2013 - a member of the Politburo of Synaspismos .

Content-related positions

Within SYRIZA, Lafazanis was the spokesman for the Left Platform , the union of the left wing of the party, which ultimately split off from the party on August 21, 2015. Even before the change of government in January 2015, he was involved in several disputes with the more moderate forces surrounding Alexis Tsipras. Lafazanis openly pleads for Greece to leave the euro zone and for a return to the drachma . He called the European Union "totalitarian" several times. In an interview in March 2015, he named the "progressive reconstruction of the country under socialist auspices" as one of the most important tasks of SYRIZA in the Greek government . He compared the behavior of the rulers in the EU towards Greece with the behavior of "unscrupulous imperialists towards their distant colony ". He called on the party beforehand to "be swept away by a new wave of radicalization in all areas, ideologically, politically, programmatically". This radicalization should lead to a "consistent alternative in response to the Troika , the Memorandum , neoliberalism and ultimately to capitalism itself".

Parliamentary activities

In 2000, Lafazanis started in the prefecture of Piraeus (constituency B) and, as a direct candidate for Synaspismos , won a parliamentary mandate for the first time, which he won again in 2007 and 2009 as a candidate for the then electoral alliance Syriza .

Web links

Commons : Panagiotis Lafazanis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Syriza , Greek Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Athens in November ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2015 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. , Michael Schacht, Member of the Bundestag - official website, 11 November 2011, last accessed on 22 January 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michael-schlecht-mdb.de
  3. ↑ People's unity takes position
  4. ↑ This is the new Greek government ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2015 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. , enikos.gr - January 27, 2015, last accessed January 27, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / en.enikos.gr
  5. ↑ spiegel.de of July 17, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Panagiotis Lafazanis , Hellenic Parliament - Official website, January 22, 2015, last accessed January 22, 2015
  7. ↑ a b “Euro or Drachma” dilemma splits SYRIZA once again , Proto Thema, April 14, 2014, last accessed on June 27, 2015
  8. ^ Greek Roulette: What Would Syriza's Victory Mean for Europe? , Spiegel Online , January 5, 2015, last accessed on June 27, 2015
  9. ↑ a b Interview of the Minister of Reconstruction of Production, Environment & Energy, Panagiotis Lafazanis , “ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟ”, March 28, 2015, last accessed on June 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lafazanis, Panagiotis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Λαφαζάνης, Παναγιώτης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Elefsina