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Afroditi Latinopoulou

Afroditi Latinopoulou (Greek: Αφροδίτη Λατινοπούλου; born 29 April 1991) is a Greek politician, founder and leader of the far-right political party Voice of Reason. She was elected as Member of the European Parliament in 2024 European Parliament election.

Afroditi Latinopoulou was born on 29 April 1991 in Thessaloniki. Her maternal roots are in Evros, a region where she received the highest percentage of votes in the European elections. She was the first child in a family of secondary school teachers. From a young age, she was involved in tennis, a sport in which she won 15 Greek championships and 4 European championships. In 2010, she was ranked 1067th by the Women's Tennis Association. Her sporting career ended in 2013 due to an injury.

She studied at the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, graduating in 2017. In 2016, she joined ONNED and was appointed Secretary of the District. Before her election to the European Parliament, Latinopoulou worked as a lawyer.

In the legislative elections of 2019, she stood as a candidate for MP in Thessaloniki with the New Democracy. She received 5,297 votes, finishing in 18th place out of a total of 20 candidates.

Afroditi Latinopoulou has been very active on social media, where her posts on political and social issues often conflicted with the official policy of New Democracy. In the summer of 2022, after she made comments on the appearance of Greek TV presenter, Danae Barka, New Democracy issued a statement and proceeded to ban Latinopoulou from running with the party: "Afroditi Latinoopoulou holds no office or position in the organizational chart of New Democracy, either at the local or central level, and will not be a candidate in the next national elections."

In August 2022, Afroditi Latinopoulou announced that she would join the "Patriotic Force for Change" a party of Konstantinos Bogdanos as Vice President. In March 2023 when Bogdanos, decided to cooperate for a joint election with the Patriots – Prodromos Emfietzoglou, Latinoupoulou disagreed and was therefore removed from the coalition. On 23 March 2023 she founded her own party, "PATRIDA − Afroditi Latinopoulou". However, by decision of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece, to which Konstantinos Bogdanos appealed, her new party was excluded from participation in the elections of 21 May 2023 as it was considered that both the name and the symbol of the party were too closely similar to "Patriotic Force for Change".

On 25 May 2024, she announced the renaming of the party as the Voice of Reason.

Latinopoulou's ideology has been described as ultranationalist, anti-communist, and far-right. She is against abortion rights, opposes LGBT rights, and has expressed homophobic, transphobic, and anti-immigrant views, repeatedly calling for the borders to be closed.

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