Prokopis Pavlopoulos
| Prokopis Pavlopoulos Προκόπης Παυλόπουλος |
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| President of Greece | |
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Assumed office 13 March 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
Alexis Tsipras Vassiliki Thanou (Acting) Alexis Tsipras |
| Preceded by | Karolos Papoulias |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 10 March 2004 – 11 September 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Kostas Karamanlis |
| Preceded by | Nikos Alivizatos |
| Succeeded by | Giannis Ragousis |
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| Born |
10 July 1950 Kalamata, Greece |
| Political party | New Democracy |
| Spouse(s) | Vlassia Peltsemi |
| Children | 2 daughters 1 son |
| Residence | Presidential Mansion |
| Alma mater |
University of Athens Panthéon-Assas University |
Prokopios Pavlopoulos (Greek: Προκόπιος Παυλόπουλος, pronounced [proˈkopios pavˈlopulos], born 10 July 1950), commonly shortened to Prokopis (Προκόπης), is the seventh President of Greece, in office since 2015. A lawyer, university professor and politician, he was Minister for the Interior from 2004 to 2009.
On 18 February 2015, Pavlopoulos was elected by the Hellenic Parliament as President of Greece, with 233 votes in favour.
Prokopis Pavlopoulos was born in Kalamata to high school principal and classics teacher Vasilios Pavlopoulos and grew up in the same city. After finishing school in his home town, he entered the Law School of the University of Athens in 1968.
In 1975, on a government scholarship, he received his DEA from the Paris Panthéon-Assas University, followed by his PhD in 1977 on Public Law. He then returned to Greece to serve his military service in the Hellenic Army (1978–79). He was elected Lecturer at the University of Athens in 1980, and he was promoted to Reader in 1981. In 1983 he became Assistant Professor and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986. In 1989, he was elected (Full) Professor of Administrative Law. In 1986, Pavlopoulos was an adjunct faculty member at the Panthéon-Assas University.
Pavlopoulos was secretary to the first President of the metapolitefsi, Michail Stasinopoulos, in 1974. From November 1989 to April 1990, he served as alternate Minister for the Presidency and government spokesman in the ecumenical government headed by Xenophon Zolotas. He served as head of the legal office to President Konstantinos Karamanlis from 1990 to 1995, and political advisor to Miltiadis Evert, then chairman of New Democracy, from September 1995. He was elected as a State MP for the New Democracy party in the 1996 parliamentary election, and in the 2000 parliamentary election he was elected as an MP for the Athens A constituency. He was appointed as New Democracy's Press and Information Spokesman by Evert on 20 April 1996; he subsequently became its Parliamentary Spokesman on 14 April 2000. Pavlopoulos was successively re-elected for Athens A in the 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012 elections.
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