Zoe Konstantopoulou
| Zoe Konstantopoulou | |
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| Ζωή Κωνσταντοπούλου | |
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| Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament | |
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In office 6 February 2015 – 4 October 2015 |
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| President |
Karolos Papoulias Prokopis Pavlopoulos |
| Preceded by | Vangelis Meimarakis |
| Succeeded by | Nikos Voutsis |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 8, 1976 Athens, Greece |
| Political party |
Coalition of the Radical Left (2012-2015) Course of Freedom (2016-) |
| Parents |
Nikos Konstantopoulos, Lina Alexiou |
| Alma mater |
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense Pantheon-Sorbonne University |
| Profession | Human rights lawyer |
| Website | www |
Zoe Konstantopoulou (Greek: Ζωή Κωνσταντοπούλου; born December 8, 1976) is a Greek lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament in 2015.
On 27 January 2015, as a member of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), she was nominated as Speaker of Parliament. She was elected to the post on 6 February 2015 with the record number of 235 out of 300 votes. Apart from SYRIZA, her candidacy was also supported by the Independent Greeks, The River, PASOK and New Democracy parties.
Konstantopoulou supported the Popular Unity party, formed by former members of SYRIZA's Left Platform, in the September 2015 parliamentary election. In April 2016, Konstantopoulou launched a new party named Course of Freedom, of which she is currently the leader.
Born in December 1976 in Athens, she is the daughter of former Synaspismos chairman Nikos Konstantopoulos and his wife Lina Alexiou. She studied law at the Law School of the University of Athens, International and European Law at Paris X Nanterre and a post-graduate course at Sorbonne on European Criminal Law and European Anti-crime Policies. In parallel, in 1998–2000, she participated in the French prisoners education programme, teaching English at the Fresnes Prison. In 2001, she worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She then completed a second post-graduate course on Human Rights and Criminal Law at Columbia University, while working at the office of the Greek Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
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