Background
Papariga was born in Athens in 1945.
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Aleka Papariga
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She graduated from the Historical-Archeological Section of the Philosophy Faculty of Athens University and after graduation worked as an employee for eight years in various accounting offices.
Career
At the same time she worked as a private tutor. Since 1976 she has worked exclusively in party and social activities. Papariga started out as an activist in the peace movement in 1961 and soon after joined the pupils" organization of the youth section of the United Democratic Left (Event-driven architecture).
She was active in various school and student movements until the military coup in 1967.
Military junta
She joined Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece) in 1968, while it was illegal during the Greek military junta and was active in the prisoners" families" movement. Third Hellenic Republic
During her activities in the women"s movement, she participated in international congresses of the Women"s International Democratic Federation, the United Nations, and many international conferences and symposia.
On February 27, 1991 at the 13th Party Congress, she was elected as Secretary-General of the Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece). She was unanimously re-elected as Secretary-General on May 26, 1996, at the 15th Party Congress. In February 2009, Papariga was re-elected as Secretary-General at the 18th Party Congress.
This re-election made her the longest serving General Secretary of the Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece). As a Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece) candidate in Athens B constituency, Papariga has been elected to the Hellenic Parliament since the 1993 election.
Papariga is the author of two books on women"s emancipation. She speaks 2 foreign languages: English and Russian.
Politics
She is the first woman who has taken on the office of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece), being the first woman to head a major political party in Greece. After the end of the military junta, she became a member of the Bureau of the City Committee of the Athens Party Organization (KOA), and was also active in the women"s movement.
Membership
Her parents, Nikos Drosos and Kiki Drosou were National Resistance fighters and members of Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece), of Cephalonian origin. Throughout this period, she was a member of the Bureau of the Event-driven architecture youth section pupils" organization and then of the "Lambrakis" Democratic Youth Students’ organization Bureau. A founding member of the Women"s Federation of Greece, she participated in the organization of national events for International Women"s Day.
She was a leading member of the women"s movement until to 1981, and then active in the Athens Party Organization up to 1991.
Papariga has been a member of the Central Committee of Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece) since the 10th Congress (May 1978) and of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee since 1986.
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Communist Party of Greece