Electra Rome Dochtsi | |
|---|---|
| Ηλέκτρα Ρώμη Δόχτση | |
 Electra Rome Dochtsi in 2024 | |
| Co-President of Volt Greece | |
| Assumed office 10 April 2025 Serving with Evangelos Liaras | |
| Preceded by | Stella Psarropoulou |
| General Secretary of Volt Greece | |
| In office 19 November 2024 – 10 April 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Konstantinos Kalafatakis |
| Succeeded by | office abolished |
| In office July 2022 – 13 March 2023 | |
| Succeeded by | Konstantinos Kalafatakis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 July 1998 Athens, Greece |
| Political party | Volt Greece |
Electra Rome Dochtsi (Athens, 1998) is a Greek politician, management consultant, co-president of Volt Greece, musician and LGBTQ+ rights activist.
She is the first trans woman leader of a legally recognized political party in Greece.
Early life
[edit]She was born in 1998 in Athens, and raised in Katerini. She originally entered the Audio Visual Arts school of the Ionian University,[1] she then transferred to the University of Piraeus, where she studied Computer Science for four years and at the University of Oulu (under Erasmus), while she is currently studying International Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.[2]
Political career
[edit]She is a member of Volt Greece and of Volt Europa from 2021. She was elected its’ General Secretary in July 2022 until the party's first congress in 2023[3][4] and again from its General Assembly in November 2024, till its’ second Congress in March–April 2025.[5] She ran as part of Haris Doukas’ municipal list in the 2023 Athens municipal election.[6] On 10 April 2025, she was elected Co-President of Volt Greece which makes her the first trans woman to become the leader of a Greek political party.[7]
Political positions
[edit]Electra Rome is a Eurofederalist,[8] she seeks the further digitization of the public sector,[9] particularly in Greece with digital courts,[10] and she supports an Open Borders policy with migrant quotas among EU countries.[10] Her platform is that of progressivism and evidence-based policy, in contrast to a “toxic, populist opposition”.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ηλέκτρα Ρώμη Δόχτση: Η συμπρόεδρος του Βολτ Ελλάδας που θέλει να αλλάξει την ελληνική πολιτική" (in Greek). 2025-07-17. Retrieved 2025-08-08.
- ^ "Ηλέκτρα Ρώμη Δόχτση" (in Greek). Volt Greece. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
- ^ Photeinos, Dionysios (2022-07-29). "Εκλογές Βολτ Ελλάδας - Βολτ Ελλάδας / Volt Greece". www.voltgreece.gr (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ^ "Το Βολτ Ελλάδας πραγματοποίησε το ιδρυτικό του συνέδριο". THE BEST (in Greek). 2023-03-16. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "Το Βολτ ανανεώνεται 🥳". Twitter (in Greek). Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Δόχτση Ρώμη Ηλέκτρα - Υποψήφια Δημοτική Σύμβουλος" (in Greek). ΑθήναΤΩΡΑ. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
- ^ "Ολοκληρώθηκαν οι εκλογές νέων Προέδρων και Ταμία του Κόμματος" (in Greek). Βολτ Ελλάδας. 2025-04-10. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ^ "Αποσπάσματα από τη συζήτηση "Ενωμένες Πολιτείες της Ευρώπης. Τώρα" - 2ο Συνέδριο του Βολτ Ελλάδας" (in Greek). Volt Greece. 2025-04-14. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
- ^ "Ηλέκτρα Ρωμη Δόχτση: "Δεν γίνεται να μιλάς για ψηφιοποίηση, όταν χρησιμοποιείς ακόμα… fax"" (in Greek). News24/7. 2025-06-08. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
- ^ a b c "Η πρώτη τρανς γυναίκα πρόεδρος ελληνικού κόμματος" (in Greek). Deutsche Welle. 2025-07-09. Retrieved 2025-07-30.