Konstantinos Zervas

Konstantinos Zervas
Κωνσταντίνος Ζέρβας
Zervas in 2019
Mayor of Thessaloniki
In office
1 September 2019 – 31 December 2023
Preceded byYiannis Boutaris
Succeeded byStelios Angeloudis
Personal details
Born (1964-05-10) 10 May 1964 (age 60)
Thessaloniki, Greece
Political partyNew Democracy
Alma materAristotle University of Thessaloniki
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Civil Engineer

Konstantinos Zervas (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Ζέρβας; born 10 May 1964) is a Greek civil engineer and politician who served as Mayor of Thessaloniki from 2019 to 2023.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

Konstantinos Zervas is born in Thessaloniki in 1964.[1] He is the son of Vasilis Zervas—a civil engineer—and Lilika Zerva-Ologa—a philologist.[3] He has two older sisters.[4] His maternal great grandmother was born in Korçë, she moved to Skopje where she met his great grandfather and that is where his grandfather was born also.

Zervas attended the German School of Thessaloniki and the Experimental School of Thessaloniki. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a Masters of Science from Brown University in 1989.[5]

Political career

He was a member of the board of directors of Attiko Metro SA between 2010 and 2016.

In 2011 Zervas became the City Councilor and Deputy mayor for the environment, quality of life and Free Space. In the calendar year of 2014 he got re-elected but instead got the position as a Citizen's Mobility, Youth and Sport deputy. Zervas exited his position in 2015 due to disagreements in major policies.[1]

In 2019 Zervas was elected mayor of Thessaloniki. He received 66.82% of the votes, while his opponent Nikos Tahiaos received 33.18% of the votes.[6] In 2019 he authored a book called "Thoughts for Thessaloniki and politics".[7] In 2019, Zervas used nationalistic rhetoric regarding the Macedonian name dispute to win electoral power through the votes of those against the Prespa Agreement.[8] In 2013 he was elected as a member of the Central Representation of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the regional department of Central Macedonia.[7]

2023 election defeat

In 2023 Zervas won the first round of the 2023 mayoral election receiving 27.3% of the vote.[9] But he lost the second round by a landslide victory from Stelios Angeloudis with Angeloudis receiving 67% of the vote to Zervas' 32%.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Konstantinos Zervas". www.themayor.eu. 25 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Konstantinos Zervas". 25 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Zervas Konstantinos – Thessaloniki Summit".
  4. ^ Πρωινός καφές με τον δήμαρχο Θεσσαλονίκης [Morning coffee with the mayor of Thessaloniki]. www.makthes.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Dual Mayors". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Konstantinos Zervas Becomes New Mayor Of Thessaloniki". Greek City Times. 3 June 2019.
  7. ^ a b "Zervas Konstantinos". Thessaloniki Summit. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  8. ^ Karyotakis, Minos-Athanasios (25 July 2023). "The use of the Macedonian name dispute on the candidates' websites in Northern Greece's regional and municipal elections of 2019". Mediterranean Politics: 1–26. doi:10.1080/13629395.2023.2240122. ISSN 1362-9395.
  9. ^ @GreeceElects (7 October 2023). "Thessaloniki" (Tweet). Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via Twitter.
  10. ^ "Athens, Thessaloniki changing mayors in local government runoff". Kathimerini English. 15 October 2023.


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