Alexis Haritsis (born 10 August 1977) is a

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since 2019 and President of

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since 2023. He studied electrical engineering, specialising in Renewable Energy Sources and participated in left-wing formations, organising from 2008 in

Synaspismos The Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology (, ''Synaspismós tīs Aristerás tōn Kinīmátōn kai tīs Oikologías''), commonly known as Synaspismos (, ''Synaspismós'', "Coalition") and abbreviated to SYN (ΣΥΝ), was a Greek politica ...

and then in

SYRIZA The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance (), best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA ( ; ; a pun on the Greek adverb , meaning "from the roots" or "radically"), is a Centre-left politics, centre-left to Left-wing politi ...

. From 2015 to 2019, he served successively as Deputy Minister of Economy, Deputy Minister of Economy and Development and Minister of Interior in the Syriza government. He was elected as an MP with SYRIZA in the 2019 and 2023 elections. He was one of the SYRIZA central committee members that left Syriza to form

in 2023.

Biography

He was born in 1977 in

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. He studied at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the

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, and did postgraduate studies at the

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, specializing in

renewable energy Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...

. He organized from his student years in

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organizations and joined SYN in late 2008. In the 2006 local elections he was a candidate for the municipal council in Kalamata but failed to get elected. In the 2012 and September 2015 elections he was a candidate with SYRIZA in

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. He was a member of the party's Central Committee and one of the participants in the

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. He has also served as coordinator of the Energy Sector of SYRIZA. In the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras he served as Secretary General of Public Investment and

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at the

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. In the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras he was Deputy Minister of

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responsible for

. After the reshuffle of 5 November 2016, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economy and Development. After the reshuffle of 29 August 2018, he was appointed

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, a position he held until 13 June 2019. In the Parliamentary elections of 2019 he was a candidate in

and was elected with 16,279 votes. On 16 July 2019 he was appointed press representative of SYRIZA and remained in that position until September 2020. In the

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and

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2023 elections he renewed his parliamentary term. In July 2023 he announced that he would not be a candidate in the

2023 Syriza leadership election A leadership election was held in September 2023 within Syriza after the resignation of leader Alexis Tsipras following the June 2023 legislative election. It was won by Stefanos Kasselakis after two rounds of voting. Background Previous lea ...

and that he supports the candidacy of Efi Achtsioglou. He was one of the 9 MPs of the "6+6" group around Efi Achtsioglou who became independent from SYRIZA in November 2023 and co-signed a text of 57 members of the Central Committee of SYRIZA who left the party criticizing its new president,

Stefanos Kasselakis Stefanos Kasselakis (; born 29 March 1988) is a Greek businessman, entrepreneur and politician, who previously served as the leader of Syriza. He is now the leader of the political party " Movement for Democracy" (Κίνημα Δημοκρατί ...

, that he harms SYRIZA by demonstrating undemocratic behaviour, political contradictions and lack of programmatic discourse. On 4 December 2023, with the announcement of the formation of the parliamentary group "

" by eleven MPs who had left SYRIZA, Charitsis was appointed its president.«Νέα Αριστερά» το όνομα των «11»
Οικονομικός Ταχυδρόμος.

References

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