Konstantopoulou was elected to the Greek Parliament on her first attempt
in May 2012 as a candidate with
Syriza. She was re-elected in the
June 2012 and
January 2015 elections. From 2012 to 2014, she was responsible for the justice, transparency and human rights brief for Syriza. She wrote the
Black Book of Shame, which lists what Syriza considered political and financial scandals. On 6 February 2015, she was elected parliamentary speaker, with a record number of 235 out of 300 votes, from her own as well as from the
Independent Greeks,
The River,
PASOK and
New Democracy parties. During her tenure as "firebrand"
Speaker of the Greek Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou used her office to set up three legal processes: a Greek Debt Truth committee, a committee to oversee Greek
war reparations claims against Germany, and a pipeline of high-level corruption cases targeted around public sector contracts with German firms (such as the
Siemens scandal and the
Lagarde list scandal). After the agreement for the
Third Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece by the first government of
SYRIZA-ANEL in a U-turn from their
anti-austerity identity and pre-election campaign promises, Zoe Konstantopoulou dissociated her views from the party in opposition to this, and participated in the following
legislative elections as a "collaborative independent" candidate of the pro-
drachma Popular Unity party formed from said breakaway faction. However, the party did not manage to achieve the
electoral threshold for representation in the legislature. ==Political activity (2015–present) ==