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Sofia Sakorafa (, born 29 April 1957 in Trikala, Greece) is a Greek-Palestinian politician and former . She was a Member of the European Parliament for Greece as member of the political party MeRA25, having formerly sat for Syriza and before that served, from June 2012 to July 2014, as a Syriza Member of the Hellenic Parliament. She served as a deputy speaker in the Hellenic Parliament for the MeRA25 party. She is the president of Association hellénique d'athlétisme amateur (SEGAS).
She won the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athens. In 1983, after winning the Balkan Games, she had achieved the third performance of the year with a throw of 72.28 m, but eventually had to withdraw from the World Championships in Helsinki, due to injury.
She was named the Greek Female Athlete of the Year for 1981 and co-Athlete of the Year with javelin thrower Anna Verouli for 1982.
| 1976 | Olympic Games | Montreal, Canada | - | NM |
| 1978 | European Championships | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 13th (q) | 56.76 m |
| 1979 | Mediterranean Games | Split, Yugoslavia | 1st | 57.96 m GR |
| 1980 | Olympic Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | - | NM |
| 1982 | Balkan Games | Bucharest, Romania | 1st | 62.08 m |
| European Championships | Athens, Greece | 3rd | 67.04 m | |
| 1983 | Balkan Games | İzmir, Turkey | 1st | 71.28 m CR |
| World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | - | DNS | |
| 1986 | Balkan Games | Ljubljana, Yugoslavia | 1st | 61.00 m |
| 1987 | Mediterranean Games | Latakia, Syria | 3rd | 57.16 m |
| 2004 | Venizelia | Chania, Greece | 4th | 47.23 m MW45WR |
On 6 May 2010 she refused to vote in favour of the austerity measures and the loan agreement between the Greek government and the IMF/EU. As a result, she was expelled from PASOK. She served as an independent member of the parliament until 2012.
She participated in the 2012 legislative elections as a member of Syriza and was elected in Athens B. In the Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, she had responsibility for the interior. She resigned from the Hellenic Parliament in May 2014 in order to contest the European Parliament election.
In the 2014 European Parliament elections, she was elected as a Member of European Parliament for Greece, representing Syriza. She is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Petitions and is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Since 16 October 2014, she has been the chair of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America, having previously been a member. She is therefore also a member of the Conference of Delegation Chairs.
On 28 September 2015, Sakorafa left Syriza to sit as an Independent within the GUE/NGL grouping. She resigned from Syriza over disagreements with the leadership over the introduction of further austerity measures in Greece. She said: "It's clear that I cannot support any government nor any policies that involve measures that harm the people."
In December 2018 Sofia Sakorafa joined the Greek party MeRA25. On 26 May 2019, she lost reelection as a member of the European Parliament as member of MeRA25.
This article incorporates text from the article Sofia_Sakorafa on Phantis.com, which is licensed under the GFDL ([4]).
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