Argyris Ntinopoulos
Argyris Dinopoulos (Greek: Αργύρης Ντινόπουλος) was born on 17 March 1956 in Athens. He has been a journalist and War Correspondent since 1989 and is now a member of the Greek parliament with the political party of New Democracy.
Political Career[edit]
He has been involved in politics since 2002 when he was elected mayor of Vrilissia, a small municipality located to the north of Athens. As candidate for the position of the director of the prefecture of Athens and Piraeus, in the 2006 elections, he was supported by "New Democracy Political Party”. In 2007, he served as Prefecture counsellor. He was also head of the team "Hypernomarxia Drasis" running for the prefect of Athens and Piraeus.
He was first elected to the Greek Parliament in 2007 and then reelected in 2009 and 2012, to the constituency of Athens.
In June 2014, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
Education[edit]
Argyris Dinopoulos completed his secondary education at the French Lyceum of Athens. He was accepted in the Law School of Athens in 1974. This coincided with the collapse of the military regime that had been ruling Greece since 1967. The very same year democracy was restored by Konstantinos Karamanlis, the founder of New Democracy, the party of which Argyris Dinopoulos is elected.
After completing his studies at the Law School of Athens, Argyris Dinopoulos continued his post -graduate studies at the universities of Paris and London.
He studied comparative law with a specialization in the field of the legal systems of the communist countries of the time as post-graduate studies. Furthermore, he specialized in the relation of justice and the Marxist theory as well as in the theory and practice of the Socialist International Law. He obtained his LL.M from the University College of London in 1981.
Argyris Dinopoulos worked as a lawyer until the 1980s when he decided to give up practicing law for journalism. He then went on to become one of the prominent reporters of ERT, the state run TV network. In the late 1980s Argyris Dinopoulos moved to Antenna, where he remained until 2002 when he got involved in politics.
External Links[edit]
Official Website of Argyris Dinopoulos
Biography of Argyris Dinopoulos in the Official Website of the Hellenic Parliament (english)
