Alekos Alavanos

Alexandros Alavanos
Αλέκος Αλαβάνος
Alekos Alavanos
President of Synaspismos
In office
12 December 2004  11 February 2008
Preceded byNikos Konstantopoulos
Succeeded byAlexis Tsipras
Member of the European Parliament
for Greece
In office
15 June 1989  13 June 2004
In office
18 October 1981  17 June 1984
Personal details
Born (1950-05-22) 22 May 1950
Athens, Greece
Political partyPlan B (2013–2018)
Other political
affiliations
KKE (?–1991)
SYRIZA (1991–2013)

Alexandros "Alekos" Alavanos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος (Αλέκος) Αλαβάνος; born 22 May 1950) is a Greek politician, former member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament. From 2004 until 2008 he was president of the Coalition of the Left of Movements and Ecology, commonly known as Synaspismos. He was parliamentary leader of the wider Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).