Personal information:
Place of origin and date of birth: Geroskipou, Pafos District, 22 October 1964.
Marital status: Married to Maro Charalambous; has one son and two daughters.
Studies: Political Science, Economics and Communication at a college in Germany.
Profession: Trade unionist.
Parliamentary tenure / activity:
- Representative of Pafos constituency under the banner of AKEL-Left-New Forces since 2006.
Was:
- Chairman of the House Standing Committee on the Environment.
- Deputy Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance.
Is:
- Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance.
- Member of the House Standing Committee on Transport, Communications and Works.
- Member of the delegation of the House to the Interparliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance in the European Union (IPC SECG). * Member of the House Standing Committee on Energy, Trade, Industry and Tourism (1st June 2016 – 4 July 2019).
Political career:
- Member of the Pancyprian United Students Organisation (PEOM) and of the United Democratic Youth Organisation (EDON).
- Member of the Pafos Municipal Council (1996-2006) and leader of the AKEL-Left-New Forces (AKEL) municipal group.
- Member of the Pafos Sewerage Board (1997-2006).- District Secretary of the Pancyprian Federation of Labour (PEO) since 1992 and member of the General Council and of the Executive Council of PEO.
- Member of the Secretariat of the AKEL Pafos District Committee since 1996.
- Member of the AKEL Central Committee since 1996.
- Member of the Environment Advisory Office, of the Transports Advisory Office and of the Ports Authority Advisory Office of AKEL.
- Member of the Secretariat of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Pafos Political Parties and Organisations.
- Member of the Pancyprian Peace Council.
