She has become the face of “Qatargate”. She has been stripped of her position as vice-president of the European Parliament and expelled from Pasok, the Greek socialist party to which she belongs, and she will appear on December 22. A look back at a meteoric political career.
Eva Kaili is still in prison. The 44-year-old former television presenter, who became an MEP and then one of the 14 vice-presidents of the European body, spent her entire political career in Pasok, the Greek socialist party. A party that on Sunday expelled her from her ranks and pressured her to resign as an MEP. She was also removed from the post of vice-president on Tuesday, in a clear vote: 625 MEPs out of 628 votes cast voted in favor of her.
In Greece, his personal assets were also frozen by the Anti-Money Laundering Authority: “bank accounts, safes, companies and any other financial assets”, according to the president of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority, Haralambos. Vourliotis, quoted by a member of the same organization.
The Greeks discovered the young woman in the early 2000s. She Presented the weekend news on the private channel Mega. Eva Kaili first studied architecture, then international and European relations and journalism. She also got involved in politics at a very young age, as a member of the Socialist Youth, and in 1998 became a municipal councilor for Thessaloniki, the city where she was born in 1978. She stood in the parliamentary elections for the first time in 2004. A first failure, quickly erased since three years later, in 2007, at the age of 29 she became the youngest member of Pasok.