Konstantinos Tassoulas is the name announced by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis as the candidate for President of the Republic, to succeed Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
The Prime Minister highly appreciates the erudite Epirus politician, who is serving his second term as Speaker of the Assembly. Tassoulas' name has been rumored for months for the post of President of the Republic, as a choice that will come from the "heart" of New Democracy, although he was elected in the summer of 2023 with 249 votes to the Presidency of the Assembly.
He is a senior parliamentarian, knows the balance sheets and is expected to be voted in without a problem by Mitsotakis' deputies, logically also by former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
Who is Konstantinos Tassoulas?
Most likely, Kostas Tassoulas will be the 9th President of the Republic starting March 13.
The current Speaker of the Assembly was born in Ioannina in 1959, is married to Fani Stathopoulou and they have two children.
He studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens and worked during the period 1988-89 in a law firm in London as a member of the British Council.
He was first elected as a member of parliament in 2000 in the Ioannina district with the New Democracy party. He was re-elected in the parliamentary elections of 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012 (twice), 2015 (twice), 2019 and 2023.
In 2006, he was appointed by then Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis as Deputy Parliamentary Representative of New Democracy, and in 2007 he assumed the position of Deputy Minister of National Defense. In February 2010, he was elected Secretary General of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group, and in 2014, in the Samaras government, he was appointed Minister of Culture and Sports until January 2015.
In 2018, he took on the role of New Democracy's General Rapporteur for the Constitutional Review, while in 2019 he was nominated by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the position of Speaker of the Assembly. He was elected Speaker of the Parliament with 283 votes and was re-elected with 270 votes in May 2023 and with 249 votes in June of the same year.
Tassoulas was private secretary to the late Evangelos Averof-Tositsa, Honorary President of the National Democratic Party from 1981 to 1990 and special advisor to the Ministries of National Economy, Trade and Agriculture (1989-1990).
He was President of the Export Promotion Organization (OPE) from 1990 to 1993 and was elected as a municipal councilor in the Municipality of Kifissia in 1990.
In 1994 he was elected mayor of Kifisia. In June 2013 he was appointed President of the "Konstantinos Karamanlis" Institute of Democracy.
Tassoulas does not belong to the "loud" politicians, although he does not go unnoticed mainly for his phlegmatic humor and the deep historical and literary knowledge that he regularly uses in his political interventions. (A2 Televizion)
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