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= Kostis Aivaliotis =

Kostis Aivaliotis is a Greek politician and media personality. He has been elected in the Greek Parliament twice with the right wing party LAOS: In 2007 and in 2009 until 2012. Since the first time he was elected he has been very active in Greek politics, is the host of a tv show that is broadcasted by art , has been a journalist in multible newspapers and as of 2024 in democratia and has had his own radio shows. He is married to Athanasia Gioutsou and has two children : Ioannis Aivaliotis (Giannis) and Myrto Aivaliotou.

Early life
Kostis is born on September 3rd 1968 in Athens by Ioannis Aivaliotis, a civil engineer and Dimitra Paschalidou , a gynecologist. He is the oldest out of three siblings. His early chilhood was spent in the greek island of Syros, where his family had to be transferred due to his father's work. In 1973, his father was exiled to Gyaros by the dictator Ioannidis and he would not return until 7 months later , when the democracy in Greece was restored. The rest of his childhood was spent in Chalandri, Athens and that's where he stayed until his 25th year.

Education
In 1986 he started his bachelor degree in Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which he finished in 1991. The same year he started a master's degree in Economic theory and policy in AUEB and finished in 1993. In 1996 he entered the Free University of Brussels (ULB) to get another master's in International Politics and finished the following year. He has immaculate knowledge of english, french and spanish , the teaching of the latter being his first work experience.

European comission
In 1993 he was selected as an administrative trainee at the European comission. He worked at the cabinet of the then Eu commissioner I.Palaiokrasas and then appointed at DG ECFIN and afterwards at DG REGIO.

European Parliament
In July 1994 he became director of the office of Nikitas Kaklamanis, who was a member of the European Parliament until the end of his mandate in July 1999. Between July 1999 and July 2004 he was director of the office of Ioannis Marinos. After Marinos's mandate ended in 2004, he became European parliament senior administrator and he worked as the head of the Greek delegation at the IND/DEM political group secretariat up until his election as a member of the Hellenic Parliament

Activism
In 2006 and 2007, Kostis was repeatedly captured by the Turkish occupation army in Cyprus during his missions as a European Parliament official. For this and other activities regarding human rights in Cyprus he was proposed to become honorary citizen of the Republic of Cyprus.

Greek politics
In September 2007 he was elected as a member of the Greek Parliament with the Laos party and was appointed as the parliamentary spokesperson, replacing the president, George Karatzaferis , when he was absent and in May 2009 he was appointed as the Laos party spokesperson in and outside of the parliament. Kostis was reelected in october 2009 until April 2012. Between 2007 and 2012 he was representing the Laos party at the Council of Europe in Strassbourg.