The “new” names include those of the director of the Prime Minister’s Press Office, Dimitris Tsiodras, the Olympic medalist and former PASOK MP, Pyrros Dimas, the former ND MP. in A’ Piraeus and co-presenter of the MEGA show, Nonis Dounias, the internationalist Sotiris Serbous, Evi Christofilopoulos and the journalist Vickys Flessa, who was also on the 2019 European ballot and had gone quite high. The list also includes the executive, now, of the N.D. (he had left PASOK) Spyros Karanikolas, but also the secretary of Volunteerism of New Democracy, Pisti Krystallidou.
The name of the honorary chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, Giorgos Blioumis, was a surprise, as his name had not been heard until yesterday. The wing chief served as chief of the General Air Staff from January 25, 2019 to January 27, 2022.
The first candidates in detail
MICHALIS ANGELOPOULOS
Lawyer, president of the KEDE Scientific Council, former mayor of Samos
VANESSA ARCHONTIDOU
Communication specialist, European Climate Pact ambassador
ELIZA VOSEBERG
MEP
PYRROS DIMAS
Olympic champion, vice president of the World Weightlifting Federation
GODFATHER DOUNIA
Former Member of Parliament for First Piraeus and Islands, presenter
THANASIS HEXADATYLOS
President of the Panhellenic Medical Association, plastic surgeon
SPYROS KARANIKOLAS
Lawyer, PhD in European Law
DIMITRIS KATSAUNIS
Business consultant, expat from Canada
MEP
VASILIS KONTOZAMANIS
Advisor to the Prime Minister on Health matters, former Deputy Minister of Health
OLGA KOURI-KALERGI
Obstetrician gynecologist
MARIA-OREOZILI KOUTSOUPIA
Lawyer of Brussels and Athens
CRYSTAL FAITH
Secretary of New Democracy Volunteerism, civil servant Attica Hospital
STELIOS KYMPOUROPOULOS MEP
VANGELIS MEIMARAKIS Member of the European Parliament, former president of New Democracy
GEORGE BLIOUMIS
Honorary head of GEA, wing commander e.a.
NIKOS NAOUMIS
Politician scientist, writer
ORESTIS OMRAN
International lawyer, expatriate from Brussels
VOULA PATOULIDOS
Deputy Regional Governor of the Metropolitan Unity of Thessaloniki (Region of Central Macedonia), Olympic medalist
VASILIOS SAKELLARIS
Deputy General Secretary of the Youth of the European People’s Party, Secretary of International Relations of ONNED, Business Executive, expatriate from the United Kingdom
SAVIOR SERBO
Associate Professor of International Politics, Democritus University of Thrace
MARIA SPYRAKI
MEP
LYDIA-ANTONIA TRAKATELLI
Doctor of Archaeology
DIMITRIS TSIODRAS Director of the Prime Minister’s Press Office
ARTHUR TSUHANTARIS
Businessman, expatriate from Australia, president of NODE Australia
VICKY FLASH
Journalist, classical philologist
NIOVI CHRISTOPOULOU
A native of New York, a lawyer in Athens and New York
EVI CHRISTOFILOPOULOU
Professor of Political Science, former Member of Parliament of Attica, former Deputy Minister of Education, former Deputy Minister of Administrative Reform and Electronic Government
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