NICOSIA CONSTITUENCY,

GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY OF THE WORKING PEOPLE (AKEL)

 
Personal info:

Place of origin and date of birth:
Nicosia, 26 October 1955.

Marital status:
Married to Sofia Podina; has one daughter and one son.

Studies:
Civil Engineering [Higher Technical Institute (ATI)], courses in Pedagogics (Cyprus Pedagogical Institute) and further training in Wood Technology (Rimini Training School, Italy).

Profession:
Professional executive in the AKEL Central Committee.

Foreign languages:
English, Italian.

Parliamentary tenure / activity:

Representative of Nicosia constituency under the banner of AKEL-Left-New Forces since 2001.

Was: 

  Member of the Committee of Selection.
  Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Internal Affairs and of the House Standing Committee on Labour and Social Insurance.

  Head of the delegation of the House to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
  One of the Vice-presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in 2008.
  
Is: 

  Leader of the AKEL-Left-New Forces parliamentary group.
  Member of the Committee of Selection.

Political career:

 Member of the Strovolos Municipal Council (1996-2001).
 Member of the AKEL Strovolos Cluster Committee.
 Member of the AKEL Nicosia District Committee.
 Member of the AKEL Central Committee since 1990, of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee since 1995 and of the Secretariat of the Central Committee since 2000.
 Spokesman of AKEL (2003-2009).
 General Secretary of the AKEL Central Committee since 2009.
 Member of the National Council, the supreme advisory body to the President of the Republic on the Cyprus problem, since 2008.

Contact info:

Address: PO Box 21827, 1513 Nicosia
Telephone: (+357) 22 407253, 22 761121
Fax: (+357) 22 764725
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]