Nikos Papadopoulos

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Nikos Papadopoulos

Member of the Riksdag
Incumbent
Assumed office 1996
Constituency	Stockholm Municipality

Born	1939 northern Greece
Political party	Swedish Social Democratic Party
Residence	Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	self-employed
Website	Nikos Papadopoulos - www.socialdemokraterna.se

Nikos Papadopoulos (1939 –) is a Swedish Social Democrat politician, born in Greece.

Papadopoulos was born in a small village near Kavala, Greece, in 1939. His grandfather was a member of the Greek parliament, and as a consequence, their house was always open. Nikos claims that these childhood experiences gave him an understanding of how important empathy and solidarity is to humans. After finishing secondary school, he had to look for further education abroad, as his chances of getting into a Greek university were at the time very slim. In 1962, he emigrated to Sweden, and later studied at Stockholm University.

[edit] Politics

Papadopoulos campaigned in the 1970s to give voting rights to non-citizen immigrants in Swedish municipal and county councils.

He first ran in the 1994 Swedish general election, but failed to win a seat. In 1996, he replaced Mats Hellström in the Riksdag, and in 1998 he was elected as a member in his own right. He was re-elected in 2002 and again in 2006.^[1]

[edit] References

^ (Swedish) Riksdagen: Nikos Papadopoulos (s). Retrieved on 2007-02-16.

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Persondata
NAME	Nikos Papadopoulos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Swedish social democratic politician living in Stockholm (from Greece), member of the Riksdag (Parliament) 1996-1998 and since 2006.
DATE OF BIRTH	1939
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DATE OF DEATH
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