Fotini Pipili
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Fotini Pipili is a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 journalist
Journalist
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 and politician
Politician
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 and member of the Greek Parliament for the New Democracy
New Democracy (Greece)
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 for the Athens A constituency.

She was born in Athens and started her career as a journalist from the woman's magazine PANTHEON (Greek: ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ). She has studied law in the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.

In 1973 she became the first female reporter in the Greek television.

She was member of the Town Council of Athens from 1986 to 1994. In February 2006 she was acting Mayor for a week replacing Dora Bakoyannis
Dora Bakoyannis
Dora Bakoyannis , born Theodora Mitsotaki , is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in...

.

In 2007 she was elected MP of the Greek Parliament for the first time. She retained her seat in the 2009 elections.

In March 2010, she starred in the Greek version of "Dancing with the Stars" on channel ANT1.

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