Zoi Konstantopoulou

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Zoi Konstantopoulou

Zoi Konstantopoulou ( Greek Ζωή Κωνσταντοπούλου , born December 8, 1976 in Athens ) is a Greek lawyer and politician. She was President of the Greek Parliament from February 6, 2015 until the newly elected parliament was constituted on October 4, 2015 . Until August 2015 she was a member of the SYRIZA party ; she ran for the new left party LAE in the early election on September 20, 2015 , but failed to make it into parliament. In April 2016, she founded a new party called Plefsi Eleftherias (Course of Freedom). In surveys at the end of September 2016, this came to values ​​of 2 to 3%. In the 2019 election she missed the parliamentary vote with 1.46% of the vote.

Life

Zoi Konstantopoulou was born as the daughter of the Synaspismos chairman Nikos Konstantopoulos . She studied law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Athens , international and European law at the University of Paris X (Nanterre) and completed postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in European criminal law and criminal policy. At the same time, she taught English at Fresnes Prison from 1998-2000 as part of a prisoner education program . In 2001 she worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . She then completed postgraduate studies in human rights and criminal law at Columbia University Law School in New York City while working in the office of the Greek Permanent Mission to the United Nations .

Since 2003 she has worked as a lawyer in Greece with her own law firm in Athens in the areas of criminal law, international criminal law and human rights. She ran for SYRIZA in the 2009 European elections and was elected for the first time as a member of the Greek parliament in the parliamentary elections in May 2012 . She was re-elected in the June 2012 and January 2015 elections. She attracted attention through sharp-tongued arguments with MPs from other parties.

In 2014, it caused a sensation that her mother, the journalist Lina Alexiou, had received child benefit for her until November 2013.

Following the electoral success of SYRIZA, she was elected as the youngest President of the Greek Parliament on February 6, 2015 by 235 of the 298 MPs present. As an opponent of Alexis Tsipras ' government policy of negotiating austerity measures and reforms with the institutions, although this had been rejected in a referendum initiated by Tsipras in accordance with the government recommendation, she ran as an independent candidate on the list of the SYRIZA spin-off Laiki Enotita at the preferred one Parliamentary election on September 20, 2015 , but was no longer elected to parliament.

On June 10, 2017, it caused a scandal during a memorial service for the Distomo massacre . The politician accused the German Ambassador to Greece, Peter Schoof , of not having the right to lay a wreath. The former speaker of parliament stood in the way of the German representative because she was of the opinion that Germany owed reparation negotiations to the Greek state. Finally, Manolis Glezos , a Greek resistance fighter, picked up the ambassador and Schoof was able to continue laying the wreath.

Web links

Commons : Zoi Konstantopoulou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/04/15/zoe-konstantopoulou-to-present-new-party-course-of-freedom/
  2. ↑ http://www.electograph.com/search/label/Greece
  3. ↑ in.gr: “Ζωή Κωνσταντοπούλου, η νεότερη πρόεδρος στην ιστορία της Βουλής” (Greek), February 6, 2015
  4. ↑ grreporter of March 24, 2014: "Child benefits for a deputy's daughter"
  5. ↑ Michael Martens: Truth Searching , in: FAZ , July 11, 2015, p. 8
  6. ^ Zoi Konstantopoulou elected as the new Speaker of Parliament , Greece newspaper , February 6, 2015.
  7. ↑ Pascal Beucker: Greece before the election: The new confusion . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 2, 2015, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 13, 2020]).
  8. ^ Scandal at a memorial event for Greek Nazi victims. When the German ambassador wanted to lay a wreath in Distomo, Greece, a politician stood in his way. "You don't have the right!" She exclaimed. In: Zeit Online. Zeit Online Gmbh, June 11, 2017, accessed June 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Konstantopoulou, Zoi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens