Thanasis Pafilis
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Thanasis Pafilis (born 8 November 1954) is a Greek
Greeks
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 politician and former Member of the European Parliament
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 for the Communist Party of Greece
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 from 2004 to 2009; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Greek parliament.
He was born in Pitsio, Phthiotis
Phthiotis
Phthiotis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia. It is bordered by the Malian Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Evrytania in the west,...

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