Kyriakos Mavronikolas

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Kyriakos Mavronikolas
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Member of the European Parliament
for Cyprus
In office
14 July 2009 31 August 2012
Personal details
Born (1955-01-25) 25 January 1955 (age 69)
Paphos
Nationality Cypriot
Political party Movement for Social Democracy
Alma mater University of Athens
Occupation Ophthalmologist

Kyriakos Mavronikolas (born 25 January 1955) is a Cypriot Movement for Social Democracy politician. He served as the Cypriot Minister of Defence from 2003 to 2006, and he sat as a Member of the European Parliament for Cyprus from 2009 to 2012, when he vacated his seat and was replaced by Sophocles Sophocleous. [1] Mavronikolas is a graduate of the University of Athens faculty of medicine, and outside politics he works as an ophthalmologist.

Footnotes

  1. "Kyriakos MAVRONIKOLAS". European Parliament . Retrieved 15 May 2014.



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