Dimitrios Papadimoulis

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Dimitrios Papadimoulis
Δημήτρης Παπαδημούλης
Papadimoulis in 2014
Vice-President of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 16 July 2024
President	Martin Schulz Antonio Tajani David Sassoli Roberta Metsola
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 16 July 2024
In office 20 July 2004 – 13 July 2009
Constituency	Greece
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
In office 4 October 2009 – 2 May 2014
Constituency	Athens B
Personal details
Born	(1955-03-21) 21 March 1955 (age 69) Athens, Greece
Political party	New Left (2023–present)
Other political affiliations	Synaspismos (until 2012) Syriza (2012–2023)
Alma mater	National Technical University of Athens

Dimitrios Papadimoulis (Greek: Δημήτρης Παπαδημούλης, romanized: Dimítris Papadimoúlis; born 21 March 1955) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as a member of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL.^[1]

On 18 January 2022, he was re-elected as vice-president of the European Parliament for the fourth consecutive time, with the support of a broad cross-party majority and with a 74.77% share of the vote, garnering 492 positive votes out of a total of 658 valid ballots. Since 2014 he is the only Greek and the only representative from the GUE-NGL political group at the Presidium of the European Parliament.

According to the VoteWatch.EU, he is the most influential Greek MEP in the European Parliament.

In 2020, he was included at the Top 10 most influential MEPs in the European Parliament (9th place) in a list of 100 MEPs from the 705 EP and 27 Member States. The SYRIZA MEP was first in his political group (European United Left / Nordic Green Left) but also first among Greek MEPs.^[2]

Born in 1955 in Athens. Graduated with distinction from Varvakeio Junior High School of Athens and studied with scholarship at the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA (National Technical University of Athens). He has worked as an engineer and business executive (1980-2004). Since the age of 18 and his student days, he participates actively and joins the left movement, where he remains since then.

• Member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of National Student Union of Greece (1976-1979), of the leadership of the Communist youth organization "Rigas Feraios" and later at the leadership of the "Greek Communist Party of the Interior" (Eurocommunist) and political party of E.AR ("Greek Left").
• Member of the Joint Committee who prepared the common Report between E.AR and the Communist Party of Greece (1988), which led to the formation of the Coalition of the Left. - - Member of the elected leading bodies of the Coalition of the Left - since its formation as a single party (1992)- and later SYRIZA.
• He was elected to the European Parliament (2004-2009) and the Greek Parliament (2009-2014).
• Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2009-2014) and vice president of the Group of the Unified European Left (UEL).
• He was re-elected as MEP in the 2014 European elections. At the suggestion of Alexis Tsipras, he was unanimously elected head of the SYRIZA delegation at the European Parliament.
• In July 2014, he was elected vice-president of the European Parliament with a percentage of positive votes 42.1%. He was re-elected vice president in January 2017 with a new percentage of positive votes measuring 73.5%.

• In the Parliamentary Evaluation Report on the term 2014–2019, published by "Vote Watch Europe", Dimitris Papadimoulis was evaluated as the Greek MEP with the greatest influence on the European Institutions. In an earlier report by VoteWatch.EU, he was also one of the three most active MEPs in the entire European Parliament, for the period 2004–2009.

• 2019 - now

Member of European Parliament. Elected first, with the highest number of votes among the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance MEPs (272.835 votes). Head of the SYRIZA delegation at the EP.

• Vice President of the European Parliament with a percentage of 60.5%.

He is a full member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and a substitute member of the Committee on Regional Development (REGI).