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Adamou Adamos

PRESIDENT OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
LIMASSOL CONSTITUENCY

Personal information:
Place of origin and date of birth: Limassol, 30 October 1950.
Marital status: Married to Phaedra Lerni; has three sons and one daughter.
Studies: Medicine (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) with specialisation in Pathology (Athens) and Internal Medicine-Oncology (Athens and United States of America).
Profession: Consultant medical oncologist.
Foreign languages: English.

Parliamentary tenure / activity:
Representative of Nicosia constituency under the banner of AKEL-Left-New Forces 2003-2004 and of Limassol constituency since 2011.
On 23 October 2020 he was elected President of the House of Representatives for the rest of the Eleventh Term of Office of the House.

Was:

  • Chairman of the House Standing Committee on the Environment.

Is:

  • Ex officio Chairman of the Committee of Selection.
  • Ex officio Chairman of the Ad Hoc House Committee on the Observance of the Rules of Procedure of the House of Representatives.
  • Ex officio Chairman of the Special House Committee on Declaration and Examination of Financial Interests.
  • Ex officio Chairman of the Ad Hoc House Committee on the Review and Update of the Rules of Procedure of the House of Representatives.
  • Ex officio Chairman of the Ad Hoc House Committee on the Investigation of Issues Relating to Loans of Politically Exposed Persons.

Political career:

  • Member of the European Parliament (Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left) (2004-2009).
  • Head of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-2007).
  • Co-President of MEPs Against Cancer (MAC), a European Parliament Interest Group (2004-2009).
  • Member of the European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
  • Deputy member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties.
  • Member (1996-2016) and president (2016- ) of the board of the Cyprus Anti-cancer Society.
  • President of the National Committee on Cancer Strategy (2010-2015).
  • Member of the board and president of the Scientific Committee and the Center of the study of haematological malignancies (KEMAK) of the Karaiskakio Foundation.