Dimitris Sioufas ( el, Δημήτρης Σιούφας; 15 August 1944
. – 11 January 2019) was a

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and

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politician.

Early life

Born in Ellinopyrgos,

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, Sioufas received a degree in political science and public administration at the

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as well as in law from the

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. He was first elected to the

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for the Karditsa constituency in the 1981 general election, and has been reelected at every election since.Curriculum vitae
at Hellenic Parliament website. He was Deputy Minister of Social Security from August 1991 to December 1992 and Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Services from December 1992 to October 1993. Following the 2004 parliamentary election, which was won by New Democracy, Sioufas became Minister for Development in the government of Prime Minister

Kostas Karamanlis Konstantinos A. Karamanlis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Αλεξάνδρου Καραμανλής; born 14 September 1956), commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis ( el, Κώστας Καραμανλής, ), is a Greek politician who served as the ...

on 10 March 2004. He left this position when a new government was sworn in on 19 September 2007 and was instead nominated as

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of Parliament."New Greek government announced"
ANA (hri.org), September 18, 2007. Sioufas has been a member of New Democracy's Central Committee since 1997; previously he was a member of the Central Committee from 1979 to 1985 and from 1994 to 1997. He was also a member of the party's Executive Committee from 1997 to 2001 and a member of its Political Council from 2001 to March 2004. From April 2000 to March 2004, he was Secretary General of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group. Sioufas married Kaity Anagnostaki and had two sons and a daughter.

References

External links

Personal WebpageBiography on Greek Parliament website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sioufas, Dimitris 1944 births 2019 deaths People from Karditsa (regional unit) New Democracy (Greece) politicians Speakers of the Hellenic Parliament Greek MPs 1981–1985 Greek MPs 1985–1989 Greek MPs 1989 (June–November) Greek MPs 1989–1990 Greek MPs 1990–1993 Greek MPs 1993–1996 Greek MPs 1996–2000 Greek MPs 2000–2004 Greek MPs 2004–2007 Greek MPs 2007–2009 Greek MPs 2009–2012