Stelios Kympouropoulos | |
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| Member of the European Parliament forGreece | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 16 July 2024 | |
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| Born | (1985-07-09)9 July 1985 (age 40) Athens, Greece |
| Political party | New Democracy |
| Website | kympouropoulos.gr |
Stelios Kympouropoulos (Greek:Στέλιος Κυμπουρόπουλος; born 9 July 1985) is a Greekpsychiatrist andpolitician of theNew Democracy party who has been serving as aMember of the European Parliament since the2019 elections.[1]
He was born on 9 July 1985, inAthens. At the age of 14 months he was diagnosed withspinal muscular atrophy. At the age of 15 his case became the occasion to change the law on flag bearers in school parades.
In 2003 he was admitted to the Department of Medicine of theNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, from where he received his degree inmedicine in 2010, with honours. From 2013 to 2015, in parallel with the exercise of Specialty, he attended postgraduate seminars on the subject ofhuman psychosexual disorders. In 2014 he received a master's degree in "Mental Health Promotion - Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders". In 2016, he received a degree inpsychiatry.
From 2016 until June 2019 he worked as Curator B 'at the 2nd University Psychiatric Clinic of the University General Hospital "Attikon".
In 2013, he pioneered the organization of the first Greek delegation to the pan-European event "Freedom Drive", which became the springboard for the creation of the first Independent Living Organization of Greece, "I-Living!", which is an urban non-profit company run exclusively by individuals with a disability.
On February 20, 2019, his candidacy as MEP was announced with the ballot of New Democracy (ND), responding to an invitation-request of the president of ND,Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The rights of disabled citizens were the subject of controversy betweenSyriza and ND, especially with the then Deputy Minister of Health,Pavlos Polakis. The reason for the minister's move was a post on the social networks of Kympouropoulos, in the capacity of ND candidate in the2019 European Parliament elections.
In the European elections he was elected MEP, while he holds the national record of crosses of preference in European elections, i.e. 577,114 crosses.
He joined the team of theEuropean People's Party (EPP Group). He is a member of theCommittee on Employment and Social Affairs, of the Delegation for relations with theMashreq countries and of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. In 2022, he joined the Special Committee on theCOVID-19 pandemic.[2][3] In addition, he is an alternate member of theCommittee on Regional Development and theSubcommittee on Human Rights. He is also a member of the Disability Intergroup of the European Parliament.
In June 2023, Kympouropoulos was the recipient of the Health and Wellbeing Award atThe Parliament Magazine's annualMEP Awards[4] In March 2024, Kympouropoulos was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at that years'sMEP Awards ceremony[5]
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