Dimitris Androulakis (born 24 November 1951 in Agios Nikolaos, Crete

Agios Nikolaos, Crete

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) is a Greek

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 author

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 and politician

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.

He was elected MP:

• With SYN in 1989
• With PASOK
  Panhellenic Socialist Movement
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   in 2004 by the Statewide list and in 2007 for Athens B constituency

As a student in the National Technical University of Athens

National Technical University of Athens

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, he was actively involved in the antidictatorial struggle and took part in the Athens Technical University uprising

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 (often incorrectly referred to as Athens Polytechnic uprising in English) as member of the organizational students' committee.

He was deputy member of the Central Committee

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 of the Communist Party of Greece

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 until 1991 when he resigned to join Synaspismos.