| Demetris Syllouris | |
| Native Name Lang: | el |
| Order: | President of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start: | 2 June 2016 |
| Term End: | 15 October 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Yiannakis Omirou |
| Successor: | Adamos Adamou |
| Order2: | 1st President of European Party |
| Term Start2: | 2005 |
| Term End2: | 2016 |
| Birth Date: | 27 July 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Nicosia, British Cyprus (present day Cyprus) |
| Party: | Solidarity Movement (2016–present) European Party (2005–2016) Democratic Rally (1991–2004) |
| Alma Mater: | University of East London |
| Profession: | Civil engineering |
| Signature: | Signature of Demetris Syllouris.png |
Demetris Syllouris (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Δημήτρης Συλλούρης; born 27 July 1953) is a Greek-Cypriot politician. He was the president of the Cypriot parliament[1] and was the leader of the European Party between 2005 and 2016.
Syllouris was born in Nicosia and studied Civil Engineering at the University of East London.[2]
Representative of Nicosia constituency under the banner of Democratic Rally Party (DISY)-Liberals Coalition 1991–2001, under the banner of DISY 2001–2004, independent 2004–2005, under the banner of the European Party 2005-2016 and since March 2016 under the banner of “Solidarity".[3]
On 2 June 2016 he was elected President of the House of Representatives for the Eleventh Term of Office of the House.
In October 2020, having been implicated by the Al Jazeera investigation into the selling of Cypriot citizenship, he resigned from his role in government.[4]
In October 2020 Al Jazeera presented hidden-camera footage[5] of Syllouris recorded in October 2019 (at a time in which he was already President of the parliament) in which he meets with journalists posing as representatives of an actually non-existing Chinese businessman and convicted money-launderer. In the footage Syllouris promises to use his influence so that the businessman receives Cypriot citizenship, even though providing citizenship to convicted criminals contravenes Cypriot law. In response Syllouris claimed that he was actually playing along with the representatives to gather more information and to finally report the case to the authorities, as he did shortly after.[6] In April 2021 'The Cyprus Papers' was BAFTA nominated.[7]