Anastasiades Nicos

Anastasiades Nicos

LIMASSOL CONSTITUENCY,

1981-2013 (He resigned as Member of the House of Representatives upon his election to the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus.) 
 

 
Personal info:

Place of origin and date of birth:
Pera Pedi, Limassol District, 27 September 1946.

Marital status:
Married to Andri Moustakoudes; has two daughters.

Studies:
Law (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and postgraduate studies in Shipping Law [University College London (University of London)].

Profession:
Lawyer.

Foreign languages:
English.

Parliamentary tenure / activity:

Representative of Limassol constituency under the banner of DISY 1981-1991, under the banner of the DISY-Liberals Coalition 1991-2001 and under the banner of DISY  2001-2013.

Was: 

  Deputy Parliamentary Spokesman of the DISY-Liberals Coalition (1991-1993) and Parliamentary Spokesman of the Coalition (1993-1997).
  Deputy President of the House of the Representatives (1996-2001).
  Member of the Committee of Selection.
  Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
  Leader of the delegation of the House to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) (1991-2011).
  Vice-president of the Executive Committee of the Cyprus Group to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
  Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (1990-1996).
  First Vice-president of the delegation of the House to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).
  Leader of the delegation of the House to the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace [Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) since 2008].
  Leader of the delegation of the House to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM).
  Leader of the delegation of the House to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) (Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean since 2010).
  Leader of the DISY parliamentary group.
  Member of the Committee of Selection.

  Leader of the delegation of the House to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

Member of the delegation of the House to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean and member of the delegation of the House to the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA).

Political career:

 Founding member of DISY and its Youth Organisation (NEDISY) (1976).
 Limassol District Secretary of NEDISY (1976-1985).
 Vice-president (1985-1987) and President (1987-1990) of NEDISY.
 First Vice-president of DISY (1990-1995).
 Deputy President of DISY (1995-1997).
 President of DISY 1997-2013.
 Participation in the highest collective bodies of the European People’s Party, of the European Democratic Union and of the World Democratic Union.
 Member of the National Council, the supreme advisory body to the President of the Republic on the Cyprus problem, since 1995.