Çetin Mandacı

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Çetin Mandacı
Member of the Parliament
for Xanthi
In office
2007–2012
Personal details
Born 1970 (age 44–45)
Xanthi, Greece
Political party PASOK

Çetin Mandacı (Greek: Τσετίν Μάντατζη), born on March 7, 1970 in the Orfano village (Topeiros municipality, Turkish: İnhanlı, Xanthi regional unit), is a Greek politician from the West Thracian Turkish minority. He has been elected to the Greek Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in 2007 and was reelected in 2009.[1] With another PASOK dissenter, he refused to support the Union government led by Lucas Papademos between PASOK, New Democracy and Popular Orthodox Rally in November 2011 because he was against the participation of a racist far right party (Popular Orthodox Rally/LAOS) in the government.[2] He was formally excluded from the PASOK in February 2012, along with 21 other MPs who had refused to vote a government memorandum on a new loan agreement.[3][4]

Çetin Mandacı studied at the Istanbul University and works as a cardiologist at the General Hospital of Xanthi. He is married to Fikret Gülsüm and has three children.[1]

He was first elected as municipal councilman in Topeiros in 2002 and was its mayor until 2004. He was re-elected at the municipal council in 2006.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Τσετίν Μουχάμερ Μάντατζη (in Greek), Hellenic Parliament, retrieved 22 July 2010
  2. ↑ "Le nouveau gouvernement grec obtient la confiance du Parlement", Le Point, 16 November 2011
  3. ↑ Lamprini C. Thoma, MPs rebel against new bill, Athens News, 12 February 2012
  4. ↑ "22 MPs were deleted from PASOK", Capital.gr, 13 February 2012