Alexis Tsipras

About Alexis Tsipras

This Syriza Party member was elected Prime Minister of Greece in early 2015. He formerly served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Hellenic Parliament.

Alexis Tsipras is a Greek politician who has served as the leader of the official opposition since 2019. Leader of the left Syriza since 2009, he was Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019. Tsipras has been the leader of the Radical Left Alliance, a left-wing political party, since 2009. He was the fourth Greek prime minister to rule during the government debt crisis of the 2010s. His belly was realized in crisis, his tenure was marked by strong austerity policy, mainly in the context of the EU having a third bailout package in Greece. Tsipras was born in Athens in 1974. He joined the Greek communist youth in the late 1980s and by the 1990s, active in student protests against educational reform plans, thus become a speaker of the movement.

Other political affiliations	Party of the European Left
Domestic partner	Peristera Baziana
Preceded by	Kyriakos Mitsotakis
President	Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Education	National Technical University of Athens
Children	2
Political party	Communist Party (before 1991), Synaspismos (1991–2013), Syriza (2013–present)
Born	July 28, 1974, Athens, Greece

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Trivia

He stirred controversy by openly criticizing the Greek Orthodox Church and by refusing to swear on the Bible at the time of his inauguration as Prime Minister of Greece.

Alexis Tsipras before fame

He joined the Communist Youth of Greece when he was in his teens. Later, after earning a degree in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, he became a national secretary of the youth branch of the Synaspismos (a leftist political coalition) and went on to become the youngest-ever leader of the organization's main body.

Achievement of Alexis Tsipras

By openly insulting the Greek Orthodox Church and refusing to swear on the Bible at his inauguration as Prime Minister of Greece, he sparked controversy.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Alexis Tsipras family life

He had two kids with his wife, engineer Peristera Batziana, one of them was named after Marxist revolutionary Ernesto"Che" Guevara.

Associations of Alexis Tsipras

Tsipras took over as Prime Minister of Greece from New Democracy Party politician Antonis Samaras.

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