Stavros Kontonis

Stavros Kontonis
MP
Σταύρος Κοντονής
Deputy Minister for Sport
Assumed office
27 January 2015
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Zakynthos
Assumed office
25 January 2015
Personal details
Born 1963
Zakynthos
Political party Syriza
Alma mater National and Capodistrian University of Athens

Haralambos-Stavros Kontonis (Greek: Χαράλαμπος - Σταύρος Κοντονής, b. 1963)[1] is a Greek lawyer and politician, member of parliament from Zakynthos for Syriza since 2012, and Deputy Minister for Sport in the Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras since January 2015.

He is the second person from Zakynthos to hold a seat in the Greek government since the Metapolitefsi, following the late-departed Dimitris Maroudas.[2]

Biographical sketch

He was born in 1963 on Zakynthos. He graduated from the law school of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1995. From then on he practiced as an attorney.[3]

From the moment he completed his studies he identified strongly with political and trade union activity, and spent two terms as president of the Society of Law Students and had a spot as president of the central committee of the National Student Union of Greece. Likewise, he was nominated for a spot on the Senate of the University of Athens and a spot as secretary of the Central Council of Greek Communist Youth – Rigas Feraios (EKON), the then-youth organisation of the Communist Party of Greece (Interior).[4]

Today he is a member of the Panhellenic Coordinating Committee of Syriza. Outside the party, he originated the Renewing Communist Ecological Left (AOKA), which he co-founded with Yiannis Banias.

He was elected member of parliament from Zakynthos for Syriza in 2012 and re-elected in 2015.[5] He became Deputy Minister of Sport in the Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.

Stavros Kontonis is a well-known fan of Panathinaikos A.O.[6] and in connexion with this he is also known as the "green" sympathiser among the ministers of Alexis Tsipras, he has evoked anxiety among fans and the governing body of Olympiacos F.C., for activities that had been observed in his leadership of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO)[7] which is to say (according to fans of Olympiacos) the premature and unethical espousal of journalistic claims regarding a criminal organisation in the world of football.[8] (See Derby of the eternal enemies and 2015 Greek football scandal).

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Vouleftes/Diatelesantes-Vouleftes-Apo-Ti-Metapolitefsi-Os-Simera/?
  2. ↑ http://www.ertopen.com/show/item/30056-eidhseis-apo-thn-era-zakynthoy
  3. ↑ http://www.gazzetta.gr/genikes-eidiseis/article/695156/o-stayros-kontonis-yfypoyrgos-athlitismoy
  4. ↑ http://www.gazzetta.gr/genikes-eidiseis/article/695156/o-stayros-kontonis-yfypoyrgos-athlitismoy
  5. ↑ http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/Vouleftes/Diatelesantes-Vouleftes-Apo-Ti-Metapolitefsi-Os-Simera/?
  6. ↑ http://www.newspao.gr/2015/03/blog-post_105.html
  7. ↑ http://www.sport24.gr/football/ellada/den-kanei-pisw-o-kontonhs.3415384.html
  8. ↑ http://dikisports.blogspot.com.tr/2015/04/blog-post_56.html
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