Dimitrios Papadimoulis is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament as a member of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left. Since 2014 he is the only Greek and the only representative from the GUE-NGL political group at the Presidium of the European Parliament. According to the VoteWatch.EU, he is the most influential Greek MEP in the European Parliament.
Born in 1955 in Athens. Graduated with distinction from Varvakeio Junior High School of Athens and studied with scholarship at the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA. He has worked as an engineer and business executive. Since the age of 18 and his student days, he participates actively and joins the left movement, where he remains since then.
Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of National Student Union of Greece, of the leadership of the Communist youth organization "Rigas Feraios" and later at the leadership of the "Greek Communist Party of the Interior" and political party of E.AR.
Member of the Joint Committee who prepared the common Report between E.AR and the Communist Party of Greece, which led to the formation of the Coalition of the Left. - - Member of the elected leading bodies of the Coalition of the Left - since its formation as a single party - and later SYRIZA.
He was elected to the European Parliament and the Greek Parliament.
He was re-elected as MEP in the 2014 European elections. At the suggestion of Alexis Tsipras, he was unanimously elected head of the SYRIZA delegation at the European Parliament.
In July 2014, he was elected Vice-President of the European Parliament with a percentage of positive votes 42.1%. He was re-elected Vice President in January 2017 with a new percentage of positive votes measuring 73.5%.
• In the Parliamentary Evaluation Report on the term 2014-2019, published by "Vote Watch Europe", Dimitris Papadimoulis was evaluated as . In an earlier report by VoteWatch.EU, he was also one of the three most active MEPs in the entire European Parliament, for the period 2004-2009.
2019 - now
Member of European Parliament. Elected first, with the highest number of votes among the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance MEPs. Head of the SYRIZA delegation at the EP.
Papadimoulis was an MEP from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the Greek parliament. Since 2014, he has again been an MEP. Since 1 July 2014, he has been one of the simultaneous 14 as Vice President of the European Parliament. Vice-President of the European Parliament Head of the SYRIZA delegation Member of the European Parliament's "Progressive Caucus" steering committee From 2014 he is the only Greek and the only representative from the GUE-NGL political group at the Presidium of the European Parliament. According to the VoteWatch.EU, he is the most influential Greek MEP in the European Parliament. Born in 1955 in Athens. Graduated with distinction from Varvakeio Junior High School of Athens and studied with scholarship at the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA. He has worked as an engineer and business executive for 25 years. He is married to Nadia Soubasaki and they have two children. • His first term in the European Parliament was in 2004-2009, and shortly afterwards he was elected in the Greek Parliament in 2009 and 2012. • Ηe was re-elected as an MEP in the 2014 European elections. At the suggestion of Alexis Tsipras, he was unanimously elected head of the SYRIZA delegation at the European Parliament. In July 2014, he was elected Vice-President of the European Parliament with a percentage of 42.1%. He was re-elected Vice President in January 2017 with a percentage of 73.5%. • In May 2019, he was elected first, with the highest number of votes from the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance MEPs and took over as head of the SYRIZA delegation at the European Parliament. In July 2019 he was re-elected Vice President of the European Parliament with a percentage of 60.5%. He is a regular member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a substitute member of the Committee on Regional Development.
