Giorgos Dimaras ( el, Γιώργος Δημαράς; born 16 December 1946) is a Greek politician. He is a member of the

Ecologist Greens The Ecologist Greens ( el, Οικολόγοι Πράσινοι (ΟΠ), ', OP) are a Greek green political party. They are a member of the European Green Party. History The Ecological Forum, the body that lead to the establishment of the party ...

, but was elected as a

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

Member of the Hellenic Parliament The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule of the Hellenes, label=none), also known as the Parliament of the Hel ...

for

Athens B Athens B (Athens Beta; el, Β΄ Αθηνών) was a parliamentary constituency in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It covered a large part of urban area of Athens outside the Municipality of Athens, which forms the Athens A constit ...

at the

January 2015 Greek legislative election Legislative elections were held in Greece on Sunday 25 January 2015 to elect all 300 members to the Hellenic Parliament in accordance with the constitution. The election was held earlier than scheduled due to the failure of the Greek parliament t ...

Early life and education

Dimaras was born in

Missolonghi Missolonghi or Messolonghi ( el, Μεσολόγγι, ) is a municipality of 34,416 people (according to the 2011 census) in western Greece. The town is the capital of Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit, and the seat of the municipality of Iera Polis ...

to a rural family. He attended Palamaiki School in Missolonghi before moving to Athens to work and study. He studied economics at the

Athens University of Economics and Business Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB; el, Οικονομικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Oikonomiko Panepistimio Athinon'', abbrev. ΟΠΑ, OPA) was founded in 1920 in Athens, Greece and is the oldest university in Gre ...

Political career

Dimaras has been the Coordinator of the Executive Committee of the

. Dimaras was a candidate for the

in the

2014 European Parliament election in Greece European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 25 May 2014 to elect the 21 Greek members of the European Parliament. The number of seats allocated to Greece declined from 22 to 21, as a result of the 2013 reapportionment of seats in the ...

. Following the

, Dimaras was elected as a

for

on the

ballot. This was due to the electoral agreement made before the election by the Ecologist Greens and Syriza. He is the first ever Ecologist Green MP and the first environmentalist MP since the dissolution of

Alternative Ecologists The Alternative Ecologists (), officially the Federation of Ecologists and Alternative Groups, was a federation of several groups created after the good performance of an autonomous electoral platform also called Alternative Ecologists in the 198 ...

in 1993. Dimaras was one of only five Syriza MPs to reject state cars for their transportation at the request of

Alexis Tsipras Alexis Tsipras ( el, Αλέξης Τσίπρας, ; born 28 July 1974) is a Greek politician serving as Leader of the Official Opposition since 2019. He served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019. Tsipras has led the Coalition of th ...

. Speaking at the first meeting of the Syriza parliamentary group, Dimaras said: "We, the MPs of Ecology and the Left, must prove by our deeds that we are not the same as the others who have turned politics into a lucrative profession." Dimaras was appointed Vice Minister of Environment at the September 2018 Tsipras cabinet reshuffle.

References

External links

Dimaras's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimaras, Giorgos Living people Greek environmentalists 1946 births Ecologist Greens politicians Greek MPs 2015 (February–August) Syriza politicians Athens University of Economics and Business alumni Greek MPs 2015–2019 People from Missolonghi