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Profile: Greek new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

Xinhua, January 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA (the Coalition of the Radical Left) party leader was sworn in on Monday as Greece's 186th Prime Minister to head a coalition government after winning Sunday's national elections.

Tsipras was born in 1974 in Athens. He is a civil engineer, graduate of the the National Technical University of Athens, with postgraduate studies in Urban and Regional Planning.

He joined the left in his school years and participated actively in the pupils' movement from 1990 to 1991 and then in the student movement.

In 1999 he was elected Secretary of the Youth of Synaspismos party, a position he maintained until the 3rd Conference of the Organization (March 2003).

In the 4th Congress of Synaspismos (December 2004) he was elected member of the Central Political Committee and then of the Political Secretariat of the party, and became in charge of Education and Youth policies.

In October 2006 he was elected councilor in the municipality of Athens, as head of the municipal movement "Open City."

In the 5th Congress of Synaspismos (February 2008), he was elected President of the Party.

In the national elections of 2009 he was elected Member of the Greek Parliament in the first district of Athens and became chairman of the parliamentary group of SYRIZA.

In the 3rd Congress of the European Left Party (December 2010) in Paris, he was elected Vice President.

In the 4th Congress of the European Left Party (December 2013) in Madrid, he was nominated as candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission and he was re-elected Vice President of the European Left Party.

Since the general election of 2012, when he was re-elected Member of the Parliament in the first district of Athens, he had been the Leader of the Main Opposition until the parliament was dissolved on Dec. 31, 2014. Endit