LARNAKA CONSTITUENCY,

DEMOCRATIC RALLY PARTY (DISY)

 

 

Personal info:

Place of origin and date of birth: Xylofagou, Larnaka District, 1 October 1953.

Marital status: Single.

Studies: Degree of Foreman-Draughtsman [Schools of the Athenian Technology Association (ATO)], degree of the Athens Technology Development Schools-Structural Works Section (STAA) and studies in Political Science (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens).

Profession: Foreman-Draughtsman.

Foreign languages: English.

Parliamentary tenure / activity:

Representative of Larnaka constituency under the banner of DISY since 2001.

Was: 

• Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Foreign and European Affairs.
• Deputy Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Educational Affairs.
• Head of the delegation of the House to the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (APA).

Is: 

• Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Educational Affairs and Culture since May 2013.
• Member of the House Standing Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
• Member of the delegation of the House to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).

Political career:

• President of the Pancyprian Farmers Union (PEK) (1976-1989).
• President of the DISY Xylofagou Local Committee (1978-1988).
• Member of the board of the Larnaka District and Advisory Committee for the Administration of Turkish Cypriot Properties (1989-1995) and of the board of the Cyprus Potato Marketing Board (1992-1998).
• Observer of the House to the European Parliament and member of the Political Group of the European People’s Party (2003).
• Member of the Larnaka Anti-Drugs Association.
• DISY Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Party’s co-ordinator for agriculture matters in the House since 2001.
• District Secretary of the Larnaka Farmers Association, member of the Farmers Committee, of the Farmers Association Supreme Council and of the collective bodies of the association since 1989.
• Member of the Larnaka District Executive Secretariat and of the Larnaka District Council of DISY since 1976.
• Member of the DISY Supreme Council and of the DISY Political Bureau since 1976.

Contact info:

Address: 4, M. Kalomiri St., 6017 Larnaka
Telephone: (+357) 24 656767
Fax: (+357) 24 621766
E-mail: [email protected]