Olga Gerovassili
4th Deputy Speaker, Member of Parliament, Minister of Citizen Protection (2018 - 2019)
SYRIZA
Speaker Bio
Parliamentary Activities
• Parliamentary Group Secretary of the Syriza-Progressive Alliance [2019 – ]
• Minister of Citizen Protection [2018 - 2019]
(i.e. of the Police Forces as well as of the Fire Brigade/Civil Protection Authority,
Civil Protection Reform Draft Bill, RescEU, “112” initiatives etc)
• Minister of Administrative Reconstruction [2016 - 2018]
(i.e. during the negotiations with ESM, EFSF, IMF etc for the administrative/public
sector reform & digitalization until the successful conclusion by Greece of the
ESM financial assistance programme in 2018)
• State Secretary to the Prime Minister / Government Spokesperson 2015-2016]
• Parliamentary Representative of SYRIZA [2015]
• Member of Parliament (MP), in the Arta Constituency, with SYRIZA party since
May 6th, 2012.
Political/Social Activities
During the period 1997 – 2003, Olga was the Secretary for the Arta Medical Society
and, consequently, in the years 2003 – 2005 Secretary for the Arta Medical
Association.
She also actively participated in the Cultural Associations “SKOUFAS” and “Arta
Initiative for the Visual Arts”.
In 1998 she was elected Member of the Local (Municipal) Board for the City of Arta.
She was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Municipal Development Company
and, also, acted as Vice-Chairman of the Mayoral Committee.
In 2000 Olga ran as an independent -under the auspices of SYRIZA- MP for the
Constituency of Arta. In the European elections of 2004, she presented herself as
candidate with the “Women for Another Europe” Group.
Olga ran in the local elections of the City of Arta in 2006 and in 2010, as Mayor
Candidate with “DIMOTIKI ALLAGI”, a non-aligned citizens’ group in Arta. In 2014 she
ran as a candidate for Regional Governor for the Region of Epirus. She was elected in
the Regional Board of Epirus and remained a member until 2016, when she resigned
as she had already assumed office as Minister.
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