Konstantinos Tasoulas

Konstantinos Tasoulas (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Τασούλας; born 17 July 1959) is a Greek politician and lawyer, serving as President of the Hellenic Parliament from 18 July 2019.^[1] A member of the New Democracy, he is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Ioannina from 2000.

Konstantinos Tasoulas
Κωνσταντίνος Τασούλας
Tasoulas in 2019
Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 July 2019
President	Prokopis Pavlopoulos Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Preceded by	Nikos Voutsis
Minister of Culture and Sports
In office 10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Prime Minister	Antonis Samaras
Preceded by	Panos Panagiotopoulos
Succeeded by	Aristides Baltas (Culture, Education and Religious Affairs)
Deputy Minister of National Defence
In office 19 September 2007 – 7 October 2009
Prime Minister	Kostas Karamanlis
Preceded by	Yannis Lambropoulos [el] Vassilis Michaloliakos [el]
Succeeded by	Panagiotis Beglitis (as Alternate Minister of National Defence)
Mayor of Kifissia
In office 1995–1998
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office April 9, 2000
Constituency	Ioannina
Personal details
Born	(1959-07-17) 17 July 1959 (age 65) Ioannina, Kingdom of Greece
Political party	New Democracy
Alma mater	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

He has also served as Minister of Culture and Sports, Deputy Minister of National Defence, and Mayor of Kifissia.

Biography

Tasoulas was born in Ioannina, Greece on July 17, 1959. He studied at the Athens Law School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and earned a law degree in 1981.

He also worked as a lawyer in Athens and London, while from 1981 to 1990 he was special secretary of Evangelos Averoff, before being elected mayor of Kifissia.

He holds the record of the Speaker of the Parliament with the most votes; having been elected with a record 283 votes "for"(ND, Syriza, KINAL, EL, MeRA25), 15 votes "present" (KKE) and two abstentions (Dimitris Tzanakopoulos and Effie Achtsioglou). It was also the first time a Speaker of the Parliament was elected by open ballot.^[2]

References

1. Team, ΤοΒΗΜΑ (17 July 2019). "Tasoulas elected Parliament Speaker with broad, five-party backing". Ειδήσεις - νέα - Το Βήμα Online.
2. "Election of Mr.Konstantinos Tasoulas in the position of the Speaker of the Parliament". Vouliwatch (in Greek). 18 July 2019.

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Political offices
Preceded by Michalis Kanakakis	Mayor of Kifissia 1995–1998	Succeeded by Vassilis Varsos
Preceded by Yannis Lambropoulos [el] together with Vassilis Michaloliakos [el]	Deputy Minister of National Defence 2007–2009	Succeeded by Panagiotis Beglitis as Alternate Minister of National Defence
Preceded by Panos Panagiotopoulos	Minister of Culture and Sports 2014–2015	Succeeded by Aristides Baltas as Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
Preceded by Nikos Voutsis	Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament 2019–present	Incumbent
Order of precedence
Preceded by Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Prime Minister	Order of precedence of Greece Speaker of the Parliament 3rd position	Succeeded by Ieronymos II as Archbishop of Athens and All Greece