14 Facts About Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was succeeded by Katerina Sakellaropoulou on 13 March 2020, who became the first woman to serve as President of Greece.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was born in Kalamata to high school principal and classics teacher Vasilios Pavlopoulos and grew up in the same city.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos then returned to Greece to serve his military service in the Hellenic Army.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was elected Lecturer at the University of Athens in 1980, and he was promoted to Reader in 1981.

In 1986, Pavlopoulos was an adjunct faculty member at the Pantheon-Assas University.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was secretary to the first President of the metapolitefsi, Michail Stasinopoulos, in 1974.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos served as head of the legal office to President Konstantinos Karamanlis from 1990 to 1995, and political advisor to Miltiadis Evert, then chairman of New Democracy, from September 1995.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was elected as a Member of Parliament for the New Democracy party in the 1996 parliamentary election; in the 2000 parliamentary election, he was elected as an MP for the Athens A constituency.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was appointed as New Democracy's Press and Information Spokesman by Evert on 20 April 1996; he subsequently became its Parliamentary Spokesman on 14 April 2000.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos was successively re-elected for Athens A in the 2000,2004,2007,2009 and 2012 elections.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos is a member of the Central Committee of New Democracy, and on 29 July 2004 he was designated as a member of the party's Political Council as one of seven MP candidates; no vote was necessary because there were only seven MP seats available on the Council.

On 18 February 2015, backed by Syriza, ANEL and his own New Democracy party, Prokopis Pavlopoulos was elected by the Hellenic Parliament as the new President of Greece with 233 votes in favour.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos succeeded Karolos Papoulias after the end of the latter's term on 13 March 2015.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos is married to Vlassia Pavlopoulou-Peltsemi and together they have two daughters, Maria and Zoe, and one son, Vasilis.