{"id":12836,"date":"2025-07-23T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/?page_id=12836"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:26:46","slug":"yannis-balafas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/board-of-directors\/yannis-balafas\/","title":{"rendered":"Yannis Balafas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull acf-group acf-group--wrapped inline-hero-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f1efe6\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Yannis Balafas <\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull acf-group acf-group--wrapped person-bio-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1\u03c3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12285\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:251px;height:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1\u03c3.jpg 225w, https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1\u03c3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1\u03c3-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yannis Balafas<\/strong> studied at the NMU of Athens and worked as a civil engineer. He became politically active in the Left during his student years, participating in the Lambrakis Youth. During the military dictatorship, he was a member of <em>Rigas Feraios<\/em>; he was prosecuted and sent into internal exile. He was a member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1974 until the party split in 1991. He was a founding member of Synaspismos, SYRIZA, and SYRIZA\u2013Progressive Alliance. For many years, he served as a member of the Central Committee and the Political Secretariat of the party. He was elected Member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Southern Sector of Athens B from 2015 to 2023. During the SYRIZA government, he was elected Vice President of the Hellenic Parliament and served as Deputy Minister of Interior and Deputy Minister for Migration Policy. He is currently a member of the Central Committee of SYRIZA\u2013Progressive Alliance. His articles have been published in <em>Avgi<\/em> and other left-wing periodicals. In 2012, he published his first book, <em>It Took 20 Years: The Chronicle of the Synaspismos Project<\/em>. In 2025, his second book was published, <em>The Rise\u2026 The Fall\u2026 The Tomorrow\u2026 SYRIZA\u2013Progressive Alliance: A Chronicle, 2012\u20132024<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yannis Balafas Yannis Balafas studied at the NMU of Athens and worked as a civil engineer. He became politically active in the Left during his student years, participating in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12285,"parent":12494,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"main-assets\/gutenberg-page-template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12836","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12840,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12836\/revisions\/12840"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}