Irene Charalambidou (; born 19 March 1964) is a Cypriot journalist and politician. In

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

, she was elected MP in the Nicosia constituency with AKEL, being re-elected in

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, and again in

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Early life and education

Irene Charalambidou was born in Limassol on 19 March 1964. She studied Psychology at the University of Nicosia and journalism at the Mediterranean College in Athens.

Career

Journalism

She worked as a journalist at the newspaper "The Games", in "Eleftherotypia" and collaborated with the newspaper "Kiryka". She was the director of public relations of the "Louis" Tourism Organization. She has worked for many years on

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, presenting one of the most popular shows of the time, "Pleasant Saturday Night". She also worked for the television of "Logos" and "

ANT1 Cyprus Antenna, better known as ANT1, is Cyprus's third private television station. It has already demonstrated 30 years of dynamic and credible presence in the market. The station launched in 1993, 4 years after establishing the ANT1 in Greece in 1989 ...

". During the period 2005-2011 she was responsible for the research, journalistic supervision and presentation of the TV broadcasting policy of RIK "We Discuss It". The President of the Republic of Cyprus,

Demetris Christofias Demetris Christofias ( ; 29 August 1946 – 21 June 2019) was a Cypriot politician, who served President of Cyprus from 2008 to 2013. He was previously President of the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2008 and General Secretary of the Prog ...

, made the first presidential report on this show in December 2008.

Author

In 2007, she published her first book titled ''What We Talked'' and in January 2011, the second book, ''The White Pages of the Cyprus issue'' on the political analysis of events of the contemporary political history of the Cyprus. The presentation of the book was made by the

President of the Republic of Cyprus The president of Cyprus, officially the president of the Republic of Cyprus, is the head of state and the head of government of Cyprus, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Cypriot National Guard. The office was established by the Consti ...

, Dimitris Christofias.

Politics

In 2011, is elected a member of the electoral district of Nicosia with AKEL. She is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Institutions, Securities and Administration, the House Standing Committee on the Development and Control of Public Expenditure and the Parliamentary Committee on Health. On May 22, 2016, she is re-elected to Nicosia with AKEL. She is ranked first in crosses of preference and this makes her the first female Member who succeeds in national elections to be elected with most crosses of preference pancyprian. With the new legislature, she is Deputy Chairwoman of the House Standing Committee on the Development and Control of Public Expenditure, and a member of the Institutions, Securities and Administration, Health and Human Rights Committees.CHARALAMBIDES Irene
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Personal life

She is married to Andros Papapavlou and has two sons.

References

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