Fotini Pipili () is a

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and

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and member of the

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for the

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for the

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constituency. She was born in Athens, on 7 February 1950, and started her career as a journalist from the woman's magazine PANTHEON (Greek: ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ). She has studied law in the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. In 1973, during the military junta, she became the first female reporter in the state military television channel IENED. She was member of the Town Council of Athens from 1986 to 1994. In February 2006 she was acting mayor for a week replacing

Dora Bakoyannis Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni ( el, Θεοδώρα "Ντόρα" Μπακογιάννη; ; ''née'' Mitsotakis; el, Μητσοτάκη, links=no; born May 6, 1954) is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece ...

. In 2007 she was elected MP of the Greek Parliament for the first time. She retained her seat in the 2009 elections. In March 2010, she starred in the Greek version of "Dancing with the Stars" on channel ANT1.

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