Alexis Tsipras (Greek: Αλέξης Τσίπρας; born 28 July 1974) is a Greek politician, leader of theCoalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and since 26 January 2015 the Prime Minister of Greece.[3][4] He was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 2009, and was the Party of the European Left nominee for President of the European Commission in the 2014 European Parliament election.
Early life and career
Tsipras was born in Athens on 28 July 1974, three days after the fall of the Greek military junta. His father was born in Epirus.[5][6] His mother was born in Eleftheroupoli.[7]
He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, graduating in 2000, before undertaking postgraduate studies inUrban and Regional Planning following an inter-departmental MPhil at the School of Architecture of NTUA. Alongside his postgraduate studies, he began working as a civil engineer in theconstruction industry. He wrote several studies and projects on the theme of the city of Athens.[8][9][10]
He joined the Young Communists Society in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, he was politically active in the student uprising against the controversial law of then-Education MinisterVasilis Kontogiannopoulos, as a student ofAmpelokipoi Branch High School. He rose to prominence as a representative of the student movement when he was featured as a guest on a television show hosted by journalist Anna Panagiotarea. During the interview, Panagiotarea implied that Tsipras was being disingenuous in defending middle and high school students' right to absenteeism without parental notification. As a university student, he joined the ranks of the renovative left-wing movement, particularly the "Enceladus" (Greek: Εγκέλαδος) group, and as member of it was elected to the executive board of the students' union of the Civil Engineering School of NTUA, and also served as student representative on the University Senate. From 1995 to 1997 he was an elected member of the Central Council of the National Students Union of Greece (EFEE).[8]
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