Miltos Kyrkos (; born 1 April 1959) is a

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chemical engineer and politician of

To Potami The River ( el, Το Ποτάμι, To Potami, ) was a centrist and social-liberal political party in Greece. The party was founded in February 2014 by Stavros Theodorakis. The party did not run in the 2019 elections and had no seats in the Hel ...

. In 2014, he was elected

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(MEP).

Life

Miltos Kyrkos was born in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

as the son of the leftist politician and former Member of the

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and the

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Leonidas Kyrkos Leonidas Kyrkos (; 12 October 1924 – 28 August 2011) was a Greek leftist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament. Life Leonidas Kyrkos was born in Heraklion, Crete, to Greek politician Michail Kyrkos, who ...

, who in 2010 was one of the founding members of

DIMAR Democratic Left (, , DIMAR) was a social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Greece, political party in Greece. Formed as a split from Synaspismos, Synaspismós, DIMAR was a minor party supporting the Cabinet of Antonis Samar ...

. He graduated as a

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and was a member of the communist youth organization

Rigas Feraios Rigas Feraios ( el, Ρήγας Φεραίος , sometimes ''Rhegas Pheraeos''; rup, Riga Fereu) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής , also transliterated ''Velestinles''); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis ( el ...

. Kyrkos lives in the predominantly leftist neighborhood of Athens,

Exarchia Exarcheia ( ) is a community in central Athens, Greece close to the historical building of the National Technical University of Athens. Exarcheia took its name from a 19th century businessman named Exarchos (Greek: Έξαρχος) who opened a larg ...

Member of the European Parliament

In the

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, he was elected one of two MEPs on the list of the newly founded political party The River. He affiliates with the parliamentary group of the

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists (PES). The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats was officially founded as a Socialist ...

(S&D) and is member of the

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and vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

References

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Member profile
on the website of the S&D parliamentary group 1959 births Living people Politicians from Athens Engineers from Athens The River (Greece) MEPs MEPs for Greece 2014–2019 Greek chemical engineers {{Greece-MEP-stub