Dimitra Arapoglou

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Δήμητρα Αράπογλου

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|office = Piraeus Prefecture (Piraeus B)

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|term_start = September 16, 2007

|term_end = September 7, 2009

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|4|21}}

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|party = Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS)

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Dimitra Arapoglou ({{langx|el|Δήμητρα Αράπογλου}}) is a Greek politician.{{cite news|url=http://www.grreporter.info/en/women_greece_call_stronger_voice_newly_elected_parliament/6649|title=Women in Greece call for a stronger voice in the newly elected parliament|publisher=GR Reporter|date=23 April 2012}} Elected for the 2007–2009 term,{{cite web|url=http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/en/Vouleftes/Diatelesantes-Vouleftes-Apo-Ti-Metapolitefsi-Os-Simera/?MpId=1a355742-8d17-480b-b5f2-c05e3787d5ac|title=Dimitra Arapoglou|publisher=Hellenic Parliament}} she was only the second deaf person in the world to be elected to a parliament.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1112/S00113/deaf-aotearoa-congratulates-nzs-first-deaf-mp.htm|title = Deaf Aotearoa Congratulates NZ's First Deaf MP | Scoop News}} She has spoken openly about the discrimination she has faced as a deaf woman in the Greek Parliament.

Arapoglou is an active member of the Greek deaf community.{{Cite web|url=http://anatropistanotia.blogspot.it/2012/04/blog-post_28.html|title = ΖΗΤΗΤΑΙ ΕΛΠΙΣ: ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ ΑΡΑΠΟΓΛΟΥ.ΥΠΟΨ.Β! Αθήνας ΛΑ.Ο.Σ.}}

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