Nikolas Farantouris | |
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| Member-elect of the European Parliament for Greece | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
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| Born | 28 January 1976 Athens, Greece |
| Political party | Syriza |
Nikolas Farantouris (born 28 January 1976) [1] is a Greek politician. He was elected as a member of the European Parliament for the Syriza party in 2024. [2]
He has worked as a lawyer at Goldman Sachs and the international law firm Norton Rose in London, Brussels and Athens. [3]
He is a member of Syriza with an active political presence. [4] In the national elections of May and June 2023 he was a candidate for MP with SYRIZA in the single-member constituency of Cephalonia, but was not elected. Farantouris ran with SYRIZA in the 2024 European Parliament electios, where he was elected. [5]
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