Education
He studied law and political science at the University of Athens, and has attended the Senior Managers in Government"s John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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He studied law and political science at the University of Athens, and has attended the Senior Managers in Government"s John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He was chairman of the House Education Committee from 2004 until 14 May 2013. This position is major because hierarchically he is the third principal according to the leadership structure of the party especially in parliamentary issues and in a relationship with the party statutes. Among other things, led to the creation of a permanent contact between the Education Committee of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Cultural Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament.
Contributed substantially to establish the necessary consensus for adoption of law on the functioning of private universities (2007).
He was Commissioner for the Environment and Sustainable Development DISY and Chairman of the Economic Management Committee. With the election of the parliamentary mandate (2001) suspended the operation of the lawyer"s office supporting the principle of incompatibility between the advisory capacity and the legal profession.
Mr. Nicos Tornaritis was enlisted in the fifth rank.
With new reformation in the House of Representatives of Cyprus Mr Nicos Tornaritis patented his position as Chairman of the House Education Committee position he has held since 2004. Tornaritis published a study entitled "Maritime Cyprus".
He also published articles and analysis in the press emphasis on education reform, the Cyprus problem in the contemporary European context, sustainable development and environmental protection, participatory democracy, the role of the younger generation and modernization of the state and its institution.
He has been elected as an Member of Parliament of Nicosia distinct with Democratic Rally elections on May 27, 2001, elections of May 21, 2006 and elections of 22 May 2011. Since then, he is the Parliamentary Representative of the parliamentary group of Democratic Rally and he is member of the Committees of the Interior, Institutions, Securities and Commissioner for Administration and Environment. He is the parliamentary representative of the political party of Democratic Rally.
According to the rates of the Democratic Rally, the parliamentary elections held on 22 May 2011, which revealed that the first Democratic Rally party at rates in Cyprus, Mr Nicos Tornaritis reelected to the position of Member of Parliament in Nicosia, in an extremely tough race in Cyprus is presented extremely high rates of absenteeism and claimed the seat in a province in which positions were seven candidates were twenty members.
He is a member of the Executive Office of the Political Bureau and the Supreme Council, and Commissioner of Education and Coordinator Division of Culture and Sport. Is vice president of the Institute of Byzantine Culture and board member of the Marine Life Foundation and Honorary Consul of Cyprus in Kenya. In parallel, a member of the Committee on Environment and Human Rights Commission.