Ioannis Tragakis (

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: Γιάννης Τραγάκης; born 21 January 1944,

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, Greece) is a

politician, member of the New Democracy party (ND) and a surveyor engineer.

Biography

He was first elected as a member of parliament with New Democracy in the constituency of

Piraeus B Piraeus B () is a Greek election constituency that includes the Piraeus regional unit municipalities and Salamina. Concretely, this constituency includes the municipalities of Keratsini-Drapetsona, Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Renti, Korydallos, Perama ...

in the 1974 elections and was re-elected in the elections of 1977,

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and November 1989,

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

and

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

. He was also elected in the elections of

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and June 2012 to the

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. During the 11th parliamentary term, on 29 June 2012, he was elected First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament with 235 votes in favour, 48 blank votes and 2 invalid votes. He was re-elected in the Piraeus B constituency in the parliamentary elections of

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and September 2015. In 2017, he stated that he would not run again and that, instead of him, his son would be a candidate in the next elections. Following this statement,

Kyriakos Mitsotakis Kyriakos Mitsotakis (, ; born 4 March 1968) is a Greek politician currently serving as the prime minister of Greece since July 2019, except for a month between May and June 2023. Mitsotakis has been president of the New Democracy (Greece), New ...

responded that his son would not be a candidate with New Democracy. Ultimately, in the parliamentary elections of 2019, Ioannis Tragakis once again ran for office in the Piraeus B constituency and was re-elected. In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, Ioannis Tragakis did not manage to get elected, but this changed in the parliamentary elections of June, and he returned to the Parliament. He is currently the oldest active member of the Hellenic Parliament.

References

External links

Ioannis Tragakis
profile on the website of the

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