Fotini Pipili () is a

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journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and

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and member of the

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for the

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for the

Athens A Athens Alpha () is a parliamentary constituency in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. In its present form it dates to 1958, when the Athens B constituency was split off, leaving Athens A with the Municipality of Athens. It elects four ...

constituency. She was born in Athens, on 7 February 1950, and started her career as a journalist from the woman's magazine PANTHEON (Greek: ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ). She has studied law in the

Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( AUTh; ), often called the University of Thessaloniki, is the second oldest Tertiary education, tertiary education institution in Greece. Named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born in Stagira (anc ...

. In 1973, during the military junta, she became the first female reporter in the state military television channel YENED. She was member of the Town Council of Athens from 1986 to 1994. In February 2006 she was acting mayor for a week replacing

Dora Bakoyannis Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni (, ; née Mitsotaki, ; born May 6, 1954) is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the ti ...

. In 2007, she was elected MP of the Greek Parliament for the first time. She retained her seat in the 2009 elections. In March 2010, she starred in the Greek version of "Dancing with the Stars" on channel ANT1.

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