Dimitris Vitsas

Vitsas was born in 1956 in Keratsini. He studied law in Athens and has worked as a private clerk.

In 1974, he joined the KNE and then the KKE, from which he left in 1991.^[1]

Vitsas then joined Synaspismos, where he was secretary of the Central Political Committee from 2009 to 2013. In July 2013, when SYRIZA was formed as a single party, he was elected secretary of the Central Committee.^[2]

In the January 2015 elections, he was elected as a deputy in the Athens B Electoral constituency and in the September 2015 elections he was elected in the Piraeus B Electoral constituency.^[3]

On 18 July 2015, he became Deputy Minister of National Defence following the resignation of Kostas Isichos. On 28 February 2018, he became Minister of Immigration Policy,^[4] a position he held until 9 July 2019.

In the 2019 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a member of parliament in the B2' West Sector of Athens.^[5] In the resulting Parliament, he was elected as the 4th Vice President, a position he held until 2023.^[6]

In the parliamentary elections of May and June 2023, he ran again, but was not elected.^[7]