Spyridon Galinos Explained

Spyros Galinos (March 1952 – 23 December 2022) was a Greek politician who served as Mayor of Lesbos from May 2014 to September 2019.

Galinos was born in Athens in March 1952 and raised in Mytilene, the capital of the Island of Lesbos.

In 1990, 1994 and 1998 he was elected City Councillor of Mytilene. In 2002, he was elected prefectural councillor, assuming the duties of Vice-Prefect at the Prefecture of Lesbos.^[1]

In 2009, he was elected to the Greek Parliament as a member of the centre-right New Democracy party. On 11 March 2012,^[2] Spiros Galinos together with ten parliamentary colleagues fled from the New Democracy party and founded with Panos Kammenos the ultra-conservative Independent Greeks party.^[3] ^[4]

In 2016, he was awarded the Olof Palme Prize for his work to help people fleeing from war and terror.^[5] ^[6] Galinos died of cancer on 23 December 2022, at the age of 70.^[7]

Notes and References

Web site: World Mayor: Profile Lesbos Mayor Spiros Galinos. www.worldmayor.com. 22 May 2020.
Web site: 13th Parliamentary Term Statistics. www.hellenicparliament.gr. 22 May 2020.
Web site: The Greek island of Lesbos is coping with up to 7,000 new refugees per day. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lesbos-mayor-spyridon-galinos-how-i-am-coping-with-up-to-7000-new-refugees-each-day-a6707696.html . 24 May 2022 . subscription . live. 24 October 2015. The Independent. en. 22 May 2020.
Web site: EveryPolitician: Greece - Hellenic Parliament - 13th Hellenic Parliament. EveryPolitician. 22 May 2020.
News: Mayors of Lesbos and Lampedusa awarded Olof Palme Prize. en. Sveriges Radio. 22 May 2020.
Web site: 2016 – Spyridon Galinos and Giusi Nicolini OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND. sv-SE. 22 May 2020.
Web site: Πέθανε ο πολιτικός και πρώην δήμαρχος Λέσβου Σπύρος Γαληνός . eleftherostypos.gr . 8 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221223142503/https://eleftherostypos.gr/politiki/pethane-o-politikos-kai-proin-dimarchos-lesvou-spyros-galinos . December 23, 2022 . el . 23 Dec 2022 . live.