1. Pavlos Polakis is a Greek politician and physician.
16 Facts About Pavlos Polakis
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Pavlos Polakis currently serves in the Hellenic Parliament as an MP for Chania, with the SYRIZA party.
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Pavlos Polakis commenced his political career at the local government level, serving as Mayor of Sfakia from 2011 to 2015.
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Pavlos Polakis joined the central political arena as a member of parliament for the prefecture of Chania in 2015.
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Pavlos Polakis served as Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction.
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Pavlos Polakis has been an elected MP for Chania with SYRIZA since 2015.
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Pavlos Polakis was candidate for Leader of Syriza at the 2024 Syriza leadership election losing to Sokratis Famellos.
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Pavlos Polakis studied at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he obtained the qualification of general surgeon-entatologist.
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Pavlos Polakis developed trade union activity at the General State Hospital of Nice, and participated in a humanitarian aid transport operation in Yugoslavia in 1999.
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Pavlos Polakis was elected deputy for Chania with SYRIZA in the elections of January 2015, September 2015 and July 2019, when SYRIZA was the opposition party.
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Pavlos Polakis is married to Dora Tsouka who he met during his student days at the University of Athens Medical School.
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Pavlos Polakis has come under fire from some of the press for his sharp rhetoric.
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Pavlos Polakis has been criticized for violations of the anti-smoking law in parliament.
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Pavlos Polakis has been involved in controversies with journalists, such as in December 2015 at a press conference where he made references to issues of entanglement.
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Pavlos Polakis came under heavy scrutiny in June 2021, as a result of controversial social media posts shared from his accounts, where he openly criticised the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Pavlos Polakis received a COVID-19 vaccine in early September, 2021.