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Emmanouil Nikia Konsolas

Member of Parliament Dodecanese Islands

Personal Info

Place and Date οf Birth:

Karpathos, 1964

Marital Status:

Married with one son

Profession:

Professor - University of the Aegean

Studies:

Graduate of the Pedagogical Academy of Rhodes, the P.T.D.E. of the University of the Aegean and the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the National School of Education, from which he also obtained his Doctoral thesis.

Foreign Languages:

Italian, English.

Parliamentary Activities

• At the May 6, 2012 elections, Manos Konsolas was elected as Member of Parliament for the Electoral District of Dodecanese and in the following elections, on June 17, he was re-elected.
• At the January 25, 2015 elections, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Electoral District of Dodecanese and was re-elected at the September elections of the same year.
• At the elections of July 7, 2019, he was re-elected as Member of Parliament polling 17.774 votes, the highest number of votes in the Dodecanese, and he was assigned as Deputy Minister of Tourism by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
• At the elections of May 21, 2023, and the runoff elections of June 25, 2023, he was re-elected as Member of Parliament for the Dodecanese.
• During his term as MP in the Dodecanese from 2012 to 2019, he was elected Secretary of the Standing Committee on Education and Secretary of the Special Permanent Committee on Greeks Abroad. He has also served as a member of the Standing Committee on Production and Trade, the Special Standing Committee on Road Safety, the Standing Committee on Education Affairs, the Special Committee on Research and Technology, the Committee on Parliamentary Library, the National Defense Committee and the Committee on Economic Affairs. He also served as President of Youth Parliament.
• From July 2019 until January 2021 he served as Deputy Minister of Tourism.
• Since January 2021, he is the President of the Special Standing Committee of the Regions of the Hellenic Parliament and of the Insular and Mountainous Regions Subcommittee of the Committee of Regions and a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice of the Parliament.
• During his parliamentary term from 2023 onward, he was re-elected by cross-party majority as Chairman of the Parliament’s Special Permanent Committee on Regions, as well as Chairman of both the Subcommittee on Island Regions and the Subcommittee on Mountainous Regions, which were established as independent entities by decision of the Plenary of the Hellenic Parliament (Government Gazette 22A/12.02.2024).

He is also Chairman of the Belgium Friendship Group.
He is a member of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, the Standing Committee on Production and Trade, and the Standing Committee on Cultural and Educational Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament, as well as a member of the Friendship Groups with Australia, the United States, and Serbia.

Political/Social Activities

• Manos Konsolas is a Professor at the School of Humanities of the University of the Aegean with extensive teaching, administrative, research and writing activities in Higher Education.
• He is a scientific collaborator at institutes and government institutions and a member of international scientific and educational associations.
• He has served as President of the Municipality Council of Rhodes from 2006 to 2010.
• During his parliamentary term from 2015 to 2019, he was appointed twice as Head of the Tourism Sector for New Democracy.

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