LIMASSOL CONSTITUENCY
PRESIDENT OF THE MOVEMENT OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATS EDEK (KS EDEK)

Personal information:

Place of origin and date of birth:
Nicosia, 17 July 1957.

Marital status:
Married to Marietta Charalambidou; has two daughters from his first marriage.

Studies:
Medicine (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and doctorate (PhD) (Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece).

Profession:
Physician (Special Dermatologist-Venereologist).

Foreign languages:
English.

Parliamentary tenure/activity:

Representative of Limassol constituency under the banner of KS EDEK (2003-2011, 2016- ).

Has previously served as:
- Chairman of the House Standing Committee on the Cyprus File and of the House Standing Committee on Defence Affairs.
- Head of the delegation of the House to the Interparliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).

Currently serves as:
- Spokesperson of KS EDEK group in the House.
- Chairperson of the House Standing Committee on Defence Affairs.
- Member of the House Standing Committee on Health Affairs and alternate member of the Special House Committee on Declaration and Examination of Financial Interests.
- Head of the delegation of the House to the Interparliamentary Conference for the CFSP and the CSDP*.

Political career:

- District Secretary of the Socialist Party EDEK (SK EDEK) Limassol (1990-1995).
- General Secretary of SK EDEK (1995-2000). 
- Second Vice President of the party (1999-2001).
- First Vice President of the party (2001-2012).
- Deputy President of the party (2012-2015). 
- President of the party since March 2015.
- Member of the National Council, the supreme advisory body to the President of the Republic on the Cyprus problem.

Publications:
“Cyprus 1955-1974. The course of a betrayal”, Nicosia (2020). 

Contact info:

Address: 43, Thessalonikis St., 3025 Limassol
Telephone: (+357) 22 407223, 22 476001, 25 371180
Fax: (+357) 25 370399
E-mail: msizopoulos@parliament.cy, marinos@sizopoulos.com 

* Marinos Sizopoulos will be Head of the delegation for the first two and a half years of the parliamentary term and Haris Georgiades for the rest two and a half years.