Background
He was born in 1963 on Zakynthos.
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Stavros Kontonis
Edit Profilelawyer Member of the Hellenic Parliament
Education
He graduated from the law school of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1995.
Career
He is the second person from Zakynthos to hold a seat in the Greek government since the Metapolitefsi, following the late-departed Dimitris Maroudas. From then on he practiced as an attorney. Likewise, he was nominated for a spot on the Senate of the University of Athens and a spot as secretary of the Central Council of Greek Communist Youth – Rigas Feraios (EKON), the then-youth organisation of the Communist Party of Greece (Interior).
He became Deputy Minister of Sport in the Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.
Stavros Kontonis is a well-known fan of Panathinaikos A.O. and in connexion with this he is also known as the "green" sympathiser among the ministers of Alexis Tsipras, he has evoked anxiety among fans and the governing body of Olympiacos F.C., for activities that had been observed in his leadership of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) which is to say (according to fans of Olympiacos) the premature and unethical espousal of journalistic claims regarding a criminal organisation in the world of football. (See Derby of the eternal enemies and 2015 Greek football scandal).
Politics
From the moment he completed his studies he identified strongly with political and trade union activity, and spent two terms as president of the Society of Law Students and had a spot as president of the central committee of the National Student Union of Greece. Outside the party, he originated the Renewing Communist Ecological Left (AOKA), which he co-founded with Yiannis Banias.
Membership
Today he is a member of the Panhellenic Coordinating Committee of Syriza. He was elected member of parliament from Zakynthos for Syriza in 2012 and re-elected in 2015.
