A conservative former minister head of state of a Greece
governed by the radical left led by anti-austerity Alexis Tsipras.
Prokopis Pavlopoulos, aged 64, is a high-profile career politician who
musters the consensus the country needs, according to the prime
minister.
Pavlopoulos is a moderate, on good terms with every level of Greek politics, with a grounding as a lawyer and a university professor who has also studied in France.
He started young in politics, secretary to President Michail Stasinopoulos when he was in his mid-twenties, during the Metapolítefsi democratic transition.
By the 1990s, he was advisor to President Konstantinos Karamanlis.
Then he was spokesman for the New Democracy Party, head of the parliamentary group from 2000-2004, and after that Interior Minister, in the government of Kostas Karamanlis, nephew of the other, to the end of that decade.
Read more: Conservative to preside over leftist-governed Greece | euronews, world news
Pavlopoulos is a moderate, on good terms with every level of Greek politics, with a grounding as a lawyer and a university professor who has also studied in France.
He started young in politics, secretary to President Michail Stasinopoulos when he was in his mid-twenties, during the Metapolítefsi democratic transition.
By the 1990s, he was advisor to President Konstantinos Karamanlis.
Then he was spokesman for the New Democracy Party, head of the parliamentary group from 2000-2004, and after that Interior Minister, in the government of Kostas Karamanlis, nephew of the other, to the end of that decade.
Read more: Conservative to preside over leftist-governed Greece | euronews, world news
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