THE Socrates Famous he was elected as a member of parliament for the first time with SYRIZA in January 2015, and almost 10 years later he takes over as president of the party, in perhaps his most difficult period.

Before being elected as a Member of Parliament, Sokratis Famellos was a municipal councilor in Fervor and founding member of the Coalition of the Left and SYRIZA. He entered the Hellenic Parliament for the first time in January 2015 as an MP for SYRIZA II of Thessaloniki. He was re-elected in September 2015, July 2019 and June 2023. In October 2015 he was appointed Parliamentary Representative of SYRIZA, while in April 2016 he was appointed President of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee to investigate the legality of lending to political parties, as well as to company owners Mass Media from its banking institutions country.

In November 2016, he assumed a ministerial role for the first time, as Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy until the elections of July 2019, while in July 2023 he was unanimously elected President of the Parliamentary Group of SYRIZA PS, after the resignation of Tsipras and until August 27, 2024, when he was replaced by Stefanos Kasselakis and Nikos Pappas.

He studied chemical engineering with a master’s degree in environmental design. He was born in 1966, and has lived in Thessaloniki since 1970. He is the father of a son, who is doing graduate studies in aerospace with a scholarship at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, while in 2018 he lost his wife Popi Karagiannidou.