Liana Kanelli
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office April 9, 2000
Personal details
Born	(1954-03-20) 20 March 1954 (age 58) Athens, Greece
Political party	Communist Party of Greece
Religion	Greek Orthodox

Garyfallia (Liana) Kanelli (in Greek Γαρυφαλλιά (Λιάνα) Κανέλλη), commonly known as Liana Kanelli (born 20 March 1954, in Athens), is a Greek journalist and Member of the Greek Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece since 2000.

She studied law at the University of Athens. In 1975, starting her career in journalism, she was acclaimed by Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis as the "kid of New Democracy",^[1] a designation she herself denied a while later.

In the next decades Kanelli worked as daily columnist, reporter at home and on missions abroad, news anchor, broadcaster, television presenter and interviewer to evolve by time into a kind of a Greek "Barbara Walters". Often played the role of media polemicist, she is noted for her forthright, irreverent, incisive and arrogant style of talking criticised or applauded by either party of the viewers.

In 1999, Kanelli announced from the podium of a rally protesting the Kosovo War and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia that she would run as a candidate for the Communist Party of Greece for the European Parliament. In the 2000 national election she was firstly elected as Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens' first electoral district, and has secured a seat in all the next elections of 2004, 2007 and 2009.

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External links[link]

• *Biography on Greek Parliament website
• Article documenting Mrs Kanelli's change of party
• Kanelli member of the Council of Europe
• On Kanelli's Defence of Milosevic
• Media History of Liana Kanelli
• EU commission on journalism

Ilias P. Kasidiaris (Greek: Ηλίας Π. Κασιδιάρης, born: Piraeus, 29 November 1980), is a Greek Member of Parliament^[1][2] and spokesperson of Golden Dawn, a Greek nationalist political party. In the Greek parliamentary elections of June 2012 he was elected with Golden Dawn.

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Ηe completed his studies at the Agricultural University of Athens.

In the Greek parliamentary elections he was elected with more votes than his party. He lives in Pikermi, Greece.

Assault and subsequent protests[link]

On June 7, 2012, Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris slapped female politician Liana Kanelli three times on the head, after she swiped at him with a newspaper for throwing a glass of water at a discussion colleague.^[3] He was subsequently locked in a room in the studio but he knocked down the door and escaped. Greek prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant. The party blamed Kanelli for the incident. This incident resulted in several protests against the Golden Dawn Party, in Athens and in other major cities in Greece.

Political analyst Theodore Couloumbis told Reuters that the sight of a young neo-Nazi beating up a defenceless woman could cost the far right party votes, especially with women, though other experts thought images of violence could play in their favour - a Facebook page dedicated to Kasidiaris picked up 6,000 'likes' within 24 hours.^[4]

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