Dimitris Natsios

Dimitris Natsios (Greek: Δημήτρης Νατσιός; born 1965) is a Greek politician and educator with a degree in Pedagogy and Theology. In 2019 he founded the Democratic Patriotic Movement – Victory, assuming the presidency of the party.^[1]

Dimitris Natsios
Δημήτρης Νατσιός
President of Democratic Patriotic Movement – Victory
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2019
Preceded by	Party established
Personal details
Born	1965 (age 59–60) Moschochori, Pieria, Greece
Political party	Democratic Patriotic Movement – Victory

Biography

Dimitris Natsios was born into a large family. He is married and the father of three children.^[2] He studied pedagogy on the Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki and then theology at the school of theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is working as a primary education teacher for the last 35 years in schools in Cyclades and Kilkis. He is a columnist on issues of education,^[3] of political, social and theological content in newspapers, magazines and websites, while according to his biography he has published 12 books mainly on education issues.^[4] Additionally he worked for 10 years as a presenter on the ecclesiastical TV station 4E TV, and for 2 years on the regional TV station of Central Macedonia, "Dion TV".^[5]

Political career

He started his political activity in 2014 with the "Freedom" movement, whose founding declaration he signed.^[6][7] In 2015 he joined the "Radical National Rally" of Vasilis Kapernaros, participating in the party's executive committee.^[8][9] Later he joined the party Society – Political Party of the Successors of Kapodistrias, from which he resigned in 2016, following rumors of his founding a new political party.^[10]

On 17 June 2019, reacting to the Prespa Agreement, he founded the Democratic Patriotic Movement – Victory.^[11] In the May 2023 Greek legislative election, the first time the it took part on national elections, the party received a percentage of 2.92% of the popular vote,^[12] narrowly missing entrance to the Hellenic Parliament.^[13][14] A month later, in the election of June the party gathered 3.7% and elected 10 MPs. In the 2024 EU elections his party raised its percentages and managed to elect 1 MEP.