1. Kyriakos Velopoulos is a member of the Hellenic Parliament and has been president of the Greek Solution political party since its foundation in 2016.
13 Facts About Kyriakos Velopoulos
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Kyriakos Velopoulos was born in West Germany and grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Kyriakos Velopoulos earned a bachelor's degree on Greek civilization studies from the Open University of Cyprus in 2013 and a master's degree in journalism from the same university in 2016.
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Kyriakos Velopoulos is a member of the Academy of the Greek language in Germany and a member of the Union of Writers of Northern Greece.
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Kyriakos Velopoulos was a member of ONNED, the youth organisation of New Democracy until 1988 and ideologically defines himself as belonging to the "patriotic ND".
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Kyriakos Velopoulos was a member of the Popular Orthodox Rally, the right-wing populist party of Georgios Karatzaferis where he was a candidate in the 2004 Greek parliamentary elections, taking 5,700 votes.
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In 2010 Kyriakos Velopoulos was chosen by LAOS as its candidate in the region of Central Macedonia.
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On May 20,2012, Kyriakos Velopoulos made the decision to leave the LAOS political party along with other politicians and joined the New Democracy party.
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Kyriakos Velopoulos proclaimed to support "the large centre-right faction with a European orientation" although he declined to run as a candidate in the 2012 legislative elections.
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Kyriakos Velopoulos is the author of Greece Bleeds, which he claims deals with the corruption of Greek society, army, legal system and politics, and Alexander, the Greatest of the Greeks, a detailed biography of Alexander the Great which includes arguments on the subject's Greek origins.
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In 2014, Kyriakos Velopoulos advertised a book by the author Ioannis Papazisis entitled "Manuscripts reveal the unknown moments of Christ" through his telemarketing broadcast.
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Several years later during the run-up to the 2019 Greek legislative election, where Kyriakos Velopoulos was running for office, some Greek media outlets reintroduced excerpts of the 2014 book sale alleging that Kyriakos Velopoulos advertised "epistles of Jesus Christ".
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Kyriakos Velopoulos supported that the epistles are authentic and kept in monasteries of Mount Athos.