Nikos claims that these childhood experiences gave him an understanding of how important empathy and solidarity is to humans.
After finishing secondary school, he had to look for further education abroad, as his chances of getting into a Greek university were at the time very slim.
Papadopoulos campaigned in the 1970s to give voting rights to non-citizen immigrants in Swedish municipal and county councils.
He first ran in the 1994 Swedish general election, but failed to win a seat.
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