The Vice Presidents
Vice Presidents fill in for the President in managing and discharging parliamentary duties. Moreover, Vice Presidents often fill in for the President and stand for Parliament in Greece and abroad.
Current parliamentary term Vice Presidents CVs
Ioannis Periklis Balafas
Member of Parliament Athens B3 Constituency (South)
Personal Info
- Place and Date οf Birth:
- Lixouri of Cephalonia, 25/11/1945
- Marital Status:
- Single
- Profession:
- Civil Engineer
- Studies:
- Alumni of the School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
- Foreign Languages:
- English
Parliamentary Activities
• Member of Parliament since January 2015
• Vice President of the Parliament
• Member of the Permanent Commission of Social Affairs
• Member of the Commission of the Library of Parliament
Political/Social Activities
• Under-secretary in the Ministry for Migration Policy
• Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction
• Member of the Central Committee and of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA.
• Founding member of Synaspismos.
• He participated actively in the resistance via his membership in the anti-dictatorial organization Rigas
Feraios. For his action, he stood trial and casted.
• Member of the Lambrakis Democratic Youth while studying in the National Technical University of
Athens.
• Since 1974 member of the Communist Party of Greece and its youth organization. He was responsible
for health issues as well as for the organization of scientists etc.
• In 2012, his book “20 years needed. The chronicle of Synaspismos venture” was published. Many of his
articles and interviews have been published in a variety of printed forms.
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