Giannis Tsironis ( el, Γιάννης Τσιρώνης; born 1958) is a Greek politician and activist. He is a member of the

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and their current spokesperson. From January to August 2015, he served as the Alternate Minister for the Environment and Energy in the

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, as part of an electoral alliance between the Ecologist Greens and

Syriza The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance ( el, Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς – Προοδευτική Συμμαχία, Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás – Proodeftikí Simachía), ...

. He resumed this role from September 2015 to November 2016, as part of the

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, in which he also served as the Alternative Minister for Agricultural Development and Food from November 2016 to August 2018.

Early life and education

Tsironis was born in

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. He studied Chemistry at university and was very active in student political movements in the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

Political career

Tsironis was a founding member of the EKO - Alternative Ecological Movement - in Athens in 1983. He was also a founding member of the

in 2002, and is currently a member of their Pan-Hellenic Council as well as editor of the party newspaper, ''Prasini Politiki''. Tsironis was the Greek delegate to the Council of the

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from 1999 to 2006 (it was known as the European Federation of Green Parties from 1993 to 2003). Tsironis has been the Ecologist Green's

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since 2011, and also served as the Coordinator of the Executive Committee from late 2013 to January 2015. On 8 January 2015, following a meeting with Alexis Tsipras, the President of

, Tsironis announced a policy of collaboration with Syriza for the

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Personal life

Tsironis is married and has three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsironis, Giannis 1958 births Living people Politicians from Athens Greek environmentalists Ecologist Greens politicians Government ministers of Greece Greek MPs 2015–2019