Charalambos Dimarchopoulos
Charalambos Dimarchopoulos (Greek: Χαραλαμπος Δημαρχοπουλος) was born in Xanthi in 1964. He graduated the Faculty of Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 1985, he served as a primary school teacher in many schools and, until the May 2014 elections, he held the position of the Principal of the primary school of Stavroupoli.
In 2007, he was elected as a member of the Prefectural Council of Xanthi with the local political formation of Giorgos Pavlidis, prefect at the time. From 2009 to 2010, he served as vice-Prefect of Xanthi Prefecture. In the local elections of 2010, he ran and was elected as a member of the municipal council of Xanthi, which he chaired from 2-1-2011 – and again from his re-election as chairman of the municipal council from January 2013.
In local elections of May 2014, he headed the local political formation "Δήμος Πρότυπο" ("A model municipality"), with which he was elected mayor in the second round of the elections on 25-5-2014, gathering 11,608 votes, 51,14%, versus 11,090 votes, 48,86%, gathered by his opponent Christos Poulios.[1] According to the new law of Kallikratis reform (in effect from 2014 elections onwards), he assumed his new duties as mayor on September 1, 2014 and for a service of 5 years[2] (instead from January 1 after the elections and a service of 4 years, which was the case till 2014).
He is married and has one daughter born in 2002.