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	Alekos Alavanos
		Alekos (Alexandros) Alavanos (Greek: Αλέκος Αλαβάνος) is a Greek politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament, former member of the European Parliament and president of the Synaspismos party of the radical left since 2004.
		During the dictatorship of 1967-1974, Alavanos took part in the struggle against the Regime of the Colonels and was imprisoned for his political convictions.
		In the 2004 Greek legislative election, Alavanos was elected MP in Athens.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/History/Portraits/AlekosAlavanos.html (242 words)

	Alekos Alavanos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alekos (Alexandros) Alavanos (Greek: Αλέκος Αλαβάνος) is a Greek politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament, former member of the European Parliament and president of the Synaspismos party of the radical left since 2004.
		During the military dictatorship of 1967-1974, Alavanos participated in the student movement against the regime ; as a result his military service deferment was revoked and he was briefly incarcerated in EAT/ESA.
		In the 2004 Greek legislative election, Alavanos was elected MP in Athens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alekos_Alavanos (269 words)

	news.ert.gr - Politics - Education Issues in Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		SYN President Alekos Alavanos accused the Government of forming an alliance with foreign universities and independent studies centres, underlining that SYN is obliged to line up with those who react and fight.
		SYN President Alekos Alavanos placed emphasis on the public nature of education, argued he is open to dialogue and criticized the Prime Minister.
		Alavanos speech, the PM said that threats for oncoming largest mobilizations reveal a reactive, conservative and arrogant notion, adding that nobody was allowed to announce extreme reactions to the majority’s selections.
	news.ert.gr /en/newsDetails.asp?id=21980 (1406 words)

	Today's Home News
		SYN president Alekos Alavanos announced that an "on-the-spot delegation of solidarity", comprising academics, solidarity organisation s with the Palestinian people, SYN cadres, and SYN Youth officials, would leave soon for Tel Aviv, for the purpose of visiting the strife-torn parts of Palestine, a party press release said..
		Alavanos said the delegation, which will include SYN-backed candidate for Thessaloniki Mayor Tasos Kourakis, would "bring a message of support from the entire Greek people to the Palestinians and the Lebanese and, if you wish, also to the Israeli citizens hurt by Israel's policy".
		It also said that Alavanos, in reply to a press question on the refugees from Lebanon, said that "all these families, which have been forced to abandon their homes under dramatic circumstances, under the relentless and inhuman bombings by Israel, must not suffer a second displacement, even for just a few days".
	www.ana.gr /anaweb/user/selectlang?lang=en&currpageurl=/user/showplain?maindoc=4452280&maindocimg=3967068&service=102 (337 words)

	Alavanos takes over helm of Synaspismos party :: Embassy of Greece - The Hague Netherlands - Press & Communication ...
		Long-time MP of the Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology (Synaspismos) party Alekos Alavanos on Monday took over the helm of the party from Nikos Constantopoulos, following his election with an overwhelming 58.5 percent majority of the vote at the closing session of the SYN Congress on Sunday.
		Alavanos expressed full satisfaction with the Congress' proceedings, which he said were carried out in an impeccable manner and with full respect for the different views heard, but with clear-cut positions regarding SYN's role at the side of the forces of soceity that required the support of the Left.
		The government's congratulations to Alavanos on his election were also expressed on Monday by government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos, along with the government's best wishes for a 'creative term'.
	www.greekembassy.nl /press/article4930.html (496 words)

	Gay News From 365Gay.com
		(story) Party leader Alekos Alavanos made the promise in a meeting with LGBT activists in Athens.
		Alavanos said that the the coalition backs the fight against all kinds of discrimination and supports the free expression of sexual orientation including the legalization of same-sex marriages.
		Alavanos said he expressed the reaction from the Church.
	www.365gay.com /newscon05/07/071805greek.htm (269 words)

	Today's Home News
		Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis on Friday received the leader of the Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology (Synaspismos) party Alekos Alavanos and briefed him on the acquisition of Turkey's Finansbank by the National Bank of Greece (NBG), Greece's largest and formerly state-run bank, in which the government remains a major shareholder.
		Alavanos also pointed out that the increase in share capital will reduce the position of the bank's employee insurance funds and said that he had asked the finance minister to either support NBG's insurance funds or that the unsold stock be bought by the state.
		On his part, Alogoskoufis stressed that the government had no additional information to that already available and that NBG now operated in the same way as all other private-sector banks, while noting that the deal was part of the bank's strategy of expansion in southeast Europe.
	www.ana-mpa.gr /anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=4248430&maindocimg=3486549&service=102 (200 words)

	news.ert.gr - Politics - Alavanos Criticised ND and KKE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the Synaspismos Youth Festival, Alekos Alavanos fiercely criticised the Government’s policy, as well as Greek Communist Party (KKE).
		Alekos Alavanos also fiercely criticised KKE, on the occasion of Aleka Papariga’s speech in KNE Festival last week.
		In closing, referring to the upcoming municipal and prefectural elections, Alavanos voiced the need for SYN to be strengthened by showcasing the candidates it supports.
	news.ert.gr /en/newsDetails.asp?id=20945 (555 words)

	Express Gay News Online
		ATHENS — A call by Synaspismos Left Coalition leader Alekos Alavanos for the legalization of gay unions prompted Bishop Anthimos of Thessaloniki to decry “the impudence and shame” of same-sex partnerships, Kathimerini, Greece’s international English language newspaper, reported.
		Alavanos later said he regrets the bishop’s reaction.
		According to Alavanos, the coalition backs civil rights and the fight against discrimination for everyone, including the free expression of sexual orientation and the legalization of gay marriage, Kathimerini reported.
	www.expressgaynews.com /2005/7-22/news/worldnews (858 words)

	Today's Home News
		Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology (Synaspismos) leader Alekos Alavanos expressed his party’s solidarity to the people of the town of Qana in Lebanon in a meeting he had on Thursday with its mayor Salah Salame.
		Alavanos stated that he was shaken up after the meeting he had with the town mayor stressing that everybody knows about the region from the stories taught in elementary school referring to the Wedding Feast at Canaan and the miracle performed by Jesus when he turned water into wine.
		He also stressed that Greece’s position in the UN Security Council and the EU Council should be used to exert pressures for the solution of the Palestinian problem, stressing that it is the key-problem for peace in the Middle East.
	www.ana.gr /anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=4684481&maindocimg=3486549&service=100 (209 words)

	goGREECE.com - Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology (SYN) party leader Alekos Alavanos held talks with the Social Security Foundation's (IKA) governor on Monday, focusing on the foundation's deficit.
		According to Alavanos, the deficit will approach 22 billion euros, once deficits from banks and public utility services - controlled in essence by private capital - are transferred to IKA.
		Alavanos expressed his party's disagreement to the transfer of these obligations by bankers and by private shareholders of public utilities to the public sector.
	www.gogreece.com /news/headlines/story.html?id=35308 (138 words)

	Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, 07-03-16
		Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology (SYN) president Alekos Alavanos and SYN Secretary Nikos Houndis on Thursday met officials from the Panhellenic Federation of Police Employees for talks that focused on the violence that has marked recent student rallies against the government's higher education reforms.
		The police union federation's president Dimitris Kyriazidis said the union had lodged a complaint with Public Order Vyron Polydoras outlining the concern of police officers and their families over the escalation of the confrontation with demonstrators, which had resulted in injury for dozens of officers, asking him not to fuel this further with his actions.
		Alavanos claimed the authors of the book had been the target of "vulgar attacks and attempts at ideological intimidation" and called on the education ministry to defend the book it had already approved and resist pressures to have it withdrawn.
	www.hri.org /news/greek/ana/last/last.html (9682 words)

	TURKISH DEPUTY REVEALS: "GREY WOLVES" ARE BEHIND ARSON FIRES IN GREECE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Greek eurodeputy Alekos Alavanos,Coalition of the Left and Progress (Synaspismos) tabled a question in the European Union's Ministerial Council today, regarding the recent reports that Turkish paramilitary organizations are responsible for the arson fires that devastate forests in Greece's islands every summer.
		Alavanos pointed out that the Turkish deputy from Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller's True Path Party (DYP), Sedat Bucak, blatantly stated in a televised interview that the perpetrator of these fires was Abdullah Catli, the leader of the extremist group "Grey Wolves".
		Alavanos continued that these revelations were made immediately after Ms.
	users.westnet.gr /~cgian/forest2.htm (534 words)

	INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The party's chairman, Alekos Alavanos, asserted during a meeting with the Palestinian representative to Greece, Esmat Sabri, his party's condemnation of such deals, which threaten the Palestinian struggle and the sovereignty of his lands.
		Sabri briefed Alavanos on the Palestinian leadership's standpoint of the deal, reiterating his position that selling any holdings of the church - which are Palestinian lands in origin - represented a national treason that Palestinians do not allow.
		Meanwhile, the Palestinian ministerial committee in charge of investigating the Greek Orthodox church's deal delivered a letter from Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei to patriarch Irineos, demanding him of explaining the details of this deal and his position of it.
	www.ipc.gov.ps /ipc_new/english/aqsa_mosgue/details.asp?name=3588 (284 words)

	Greek Church Gives Ground to Muslims - Military Photos
		The leader of Synaspismos Left Coalition, Alekos Alavanos, claimed that the Holy Synod had prepared a document which would be read out in churches on Sunday referring to MPs who last week proposed a separation of Church and state as being “new Diocletians.”
		Alavanos also criticized the Synod’s assertion that only the Greek people could decide whether to separate the Church from the state and accused the head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Christodoulos, of cultivating “far-right policies.”
		As for Alavanos i think he is slightly retarded, although i must credit him with his request for Archbishop Christodoulos to go home.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=65556 (564 words)

	Simitis announces PASOK'S ticket for the Euroelections
		Also on the list are Deputy National Economy Minister Alekos Baltas and the former head of Greenpeace's office in Greece, Ilias Efthymiopoulos.
		Simitis reiterated that the ruling party did not consider the June polls to be any kind of "referendum" or "opinion poll", as claimed by the opposition.
		Alekos Alavanos and Mihalis Papayiannakis will head the ticket.
	www.greekembassy.org /Embassy/content/en/Article.aspx?office=1&folder=284&article=4296 (479 words)

	European Left - Press Conference of Alekos Alavanos, president of Synaspismos, European Left member party
		Press Conference of Alekos Alavanos, president of Synaspismos, European Left member party
		EL demands immediate ceasefire and stop of the war against Lebanon as well as withdrawal all Israeli military forces from Gaza strip – delegation of the Party of the European left leaves to Beirut
		Aris Moussionis, member of Greek Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) has asked to be part of this group and he will be joining the delegation.
	www.european-left.org /Members/mherberg/pressrelease.2006-07-25.5886482840 (416 words)

	Greece: Anarchist Action at Education March : Thunderbay IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For primary and secondary schools, he suggested a review of teaching material and methods as well as the introduction of more technological aids.
		The leaders of PASOK, George Papandreou, and Synaspismos, Alekos Alavanos, agreed to back the government in its reforms as long as its efforts were genuine and not designed to serve narrow political ends.
		A group of anarchists, who joined a student protest march for better higher education facilities and funding, set fire to a municipal police car and smashed four store windows on central Ermou Street.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=18053 (292 words)

	Greek Scholar Denied Entrance into U.S. \| The Progressive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The officers suggested that his name must have gotten confused with another one that resembled his, he says.
		Milios sent a message to a member of the Greek Parliament, Alekos Alavanos, who is president of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), to which Milios belongs.
		Alavanos contacted the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
	progressive.org /mag_mc062806 (1343 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| EC rap on work site accidents
		Synaspismos Left Coalition Euro MP Alekos Alavanos said yesterday that, in response to a question he tabled in the Strasbourg European Parliament on whether EU regulations on work safety controls are being properly implemented, the Commission said it had sent Athens a warning letter on the matter.
		This is the first move in a three-step process for taking a country to the European Court of Justice.
		Alavanos, who is running for Parliament in Sunday’s election, said Greece has the highest number of work site deaths per work force in the EU, with three fatal accidents this week alone.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_04/03/2004_40267 (224 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| In Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Synaspismos Left Coalition leader Alekos Alavanos yesterday proposed a parliamentary debate on education.
		In a request submitted to Parliament Speaker Anna Psarouda-Benaki, Alavanos said that there has been turmoil in all levels of education in Greece since the start of the academic year.
		Meanwhile, about half of the students that had held sit-in protests at 494 schools in Greece started vacating buildings yesterday, allowing them to be used for Sunday’s municipal elections.
	ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100022_13/10/2006_75352 (643 words)

	MetaChat - In my neighborhood:
		ATHENS, April 24 — On the eve of a visit here by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the police increased security around potential American targets on Monday and prepared for a wave of protests by antiwar demonstrators and others...
		"The American secretary of state comes to Athens as a messenger of war," said Alekos Alavanos, head of Synaspismos, a small left-wing party planning to take part in the protests.
		I really enjoy the phrase "Greek Beekeeper." It sounds like a wrestling move or sex act or something.
	metachat.org /index.php/2006/04/25/in_my_neighborhood (158 words)

	THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY » Kidnapping Update
		Mutual kidnapping is the national sport in which members of the most amiable Pakistani community in our country indulge
		He came up with that gem in a parlimentary session and was pulled up on it by the leader of Left Coalition Synaspismos, Alekos Alavanos who said:
		Alavanos asked Polydoras if the British and Greek governments had discussed the possibility of covering up the affair.
	deviousdiva.com /wp-trackback.php?p=21 (881 words)

	Storm Brews Over FYROM Name Issue
		Greece's use of the name Macedonia for its northern province would reportedly also be restricted, a provision that incensed the government and most Greeks, given their historical and national claim to the name as descendants of the ancient Macedonian empire of Phillip and Alexander the Great.
		The National Council of Foreign Policy, a consultative body comprised of representatives of all parliamentary parties, will discuss the issue on October 18, at the request of Left Coalition leader Alekos Alavanos.
		The Greek Communist Party has demanded a meeting of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, which has yet to be set.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /stormbrewsoverfyrom.html (954 words)

	American Hellenic Council - Greece lost two opportunities, PASOK leader says after meeting with Cyprus' Demo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Cypriot official described the meeting as "exceptionally useful" because "through George Papandreou's experiences and his genuine interest, we take strength, but also many thoughts which find us in absolute agreement".
		Anastassiades said that he and Alavanos discussed the situation created after October 3 with the purpose of "reaching a solution which will meet the reasonable concerns and claims of the Greek Cypriots and which will be acceptable by both communities."
		Athens mayor meets visiting Cypriot party leader: Athens mayor Dora Bakoyanni met Tuesday with visiting Cyprus Democratic Rally party leader Nikos Anastassiades.
	www.americanhellenic.org /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=347 (463 words)

	Greek Phone-tapping Didn't Endanger National Security
		The small Synaspismos left wing opposition party said the tapping constituted "a case of espionage."
		"Available indications support the possibility that these acts came from foreign powers that operate unchecked in our country," party leader Alekos Alavanos said.
		He accused the government of having "kept the Greek people and other political parties in the dark" over the tapping, a charge also aired Thursday by the main opposition Socialist party.
	www.cellular-news.com /story/15935.php (490 words)

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