Parliament President Constantine Tassoulas was nominated for the office of President of the Hellenic Republic on Wednesday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

A lawyer by profession, Constantine Tassoulas was born in Ioannina in 1959, is married and has two children. Since 2000, he has been elected as a member of parliament with the New Democracy party. In 2007, he was appointed Deputy Minister of National Defence, in 2010 he was elected Secretary General of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group, in 2014 he was appointed Minister of Culture and Sports until January 2015, while in 2018 he was appointed General Rapporteur of the New Democracy party for the Constitutional Revision.

In 2019, he was elected President of the Hellenic Parliament, a position to which he was re-elected in May 2023 and for a third time in July 2023.

Political/Social Activities

He was the private secretary of the late honorary president of New Democracy Evangelos Averoff-Tositsa from 1981 until 1990 and a special advisor to the Ministries of National Economy, Trade and Agriculture (1989-1990).

He then served as president of the Export Promotion Organisation (OPE) from 1990 to 1993.

He was elected a municipal councillor of the Municipality of Kifissia in 1990. In 1994, he was elected mayor of Kifissia.

In June 2013, he was appointed president of the "Constantine Karamanlis" Democracy Institute.