"Mr. Christos"

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Kyriakos Christou was a Greek Cypriot politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the Limassol Electoral District elected with AKEL.

Biographical data
Kyriakos Christou was born in Kissonberg in 1915. He was an AKL professional executive.

He was married to Antigone Artemis and you had three sons, one of whom was Andreas Christou.

He died on 13 November 2013.

Path Policy
In 1938 he joined the Communist Party of Cyprus, which the British administration of Cyprus had outlawed. In 1941 he was a founding member of AKEL. He volunteered for the Cyprus Constitution that he fought with the Allied forces during World War II, following the call of AKEL of 16 June 1943. He initially served in Egypt and then in Italy. When the war ended he was involved in the Cypriot soldiers movement to demobilise them. For this reason he was imprisoned by the British in the Hatatpa camp in the desert of Egypt, along with hundreds of Cypriots. They were released in 1946. When he returned to Cyprus he was arrested and imprisoned by the English because of his involvement with AKEL which they had outlawed. He was imprisoned in Decelia, where he managed to escape after an organized plan of party leadership.

He was provincial secretary of AKEL Pafos (1942–1943), AKEL Larnaca and AKEL Limassol (1950–1989). For more than forty years he was a member of the Central Committee and the Political Office of AKEL.

He was elected MP at the 1981 parliamentary election in the Limassol Electoral District with AKEL for the Fourth Parliamentary Period. He was re-elected in the 1985 parliamentary elections for the Fifth Parliamentary Period. As a Member of Parliament, he served as a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Internal Affairs and Defence, the Parliamentary Committee on Trade, the Parliamentary Committee on Health and the Parliamentary Committee on the Rules of Procedure of the House.

Written work
He is author of the book "95 years – course of life and struggle" (2010) in which his life, struggles and action are recorded autobiographically.

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Members elected by the ACPL
Limassol MPs
MPs of the Fourth Parliamentary Period (Cyprus)
MPs V Parliamentary Period (Cyprus)