Tasou, Georgios
Name: Hon. Georgios Tasou
Years active: 2001-
Party: Democratic Rally Party
Constituency: The Larnaka Constituency
Roles
Was:
- Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Foreign and European Affairs.
- Deputy Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Educational Affairs.
- Head of the delegation of the House to the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (APA).
Is:
- Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Educational Affairs since May 2013.
- Member of the House Standing Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
- Member of the delegation of the House to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).
Education
Georgios Tasou graduated with a Degree of Foreman-Draughtsman [Schools of the Athenian Technology Association (ATO)], a degree of the Athens Technology Development Schools-Structural Works Section (STAA) and he studied Political Science at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.
History
Georgios Tasou is a representative of Larnaka constituency under the banner of DISY since 2001.
Political career:
- President of the Pancyprian Farmers Union (PEK) (1976-1989).
- President of the DISY Xylofagou Local Committee (1978-1988).
- Member of the board of the Larnaka District and Advisory Committee for the Administration of Turkish Cypriot Properties (1989-1995) and of the board of the Cyprus Potato Marketing Board (1992-1998).
- Observer of the House to the European Parliament and member of the Political Group of the European People’s Party (2003).
- Member of the Larnaka Anti-Drugs Association.
- DISY Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Party’s co-ordinator for agriculture matters in the House since 2001.
- District Secretary of the Larnaka Farmers Association, member of the Farmers Committee, of the Farmers Association Supreme Council and of the collective bodies of the association since 1989.
- Member of the Larnaka District Executive Secretariat and of the Larnaka District Council of DISY since 1976.
- Member of the DISY Supreme Council and of the DISY Political Bureau since 1976.
