Adonis Georgiadis

Adonis Georgiadis, 2015

Spyridon-Adonis Georgiadis (Greek: Σπυρίδων-Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης), (born November 6, 1972 in Athens ) is a Greek politician , historian and publisher. Georgiadis is currently Minister for Economic Development and Investment and 1st Deputy Chairman of Nea Dimokratia . Previously, he was Minister for Merchant Marine in Loukas Papadimos 'cabinet and Minister of Health in Andonis Samaras' cabinet .

Life

In 1992 he graduated from the Institute of History and Archeology of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Athens . Since June 2009 he has been married to the conductor and presenter Eugenia Manolidou . So far, the marriage has had two children, Athanassios-Perseas (* 2005) and Anastasios-Alkeos (* 2014). Manolidou had brought a son and a daughter into the marriage from his first marriage.

Georgiadis has appeared almost daily on smaller Greek private television channels for more than ten years. In his daily program, Georgiadis and his brother Leonidas comment on current affairs in a historical and philological context and present books from his family publisher Ekdoseis Georgiadi , but also from other Greek publishers.

An institution outsourced by the publishing house called Elliniki Agogi , which was founded by Georgiadis, aims to promote the ancient Greek language. Elliniki Agogi offers language lessons in ancient Greek for children and adults, history lessons and occasionally also does political public relations.

Political career

Georgiadis was initially active in the student organization of the Nea Dimokratia . He later joined the LAOS party and was its press spokesman from December 2003 to August 2007 and then general secretary . From September 2007 to February 2012 he was a member of the Greek Parliament for LAOS. From November 2011 to February 2012, he was also Deputy Minister for Development and Competition with responsibility for the Merchant Navy in Loukas Papadimos' cabinet . In February 2012 he resigned from all party offices, from his ministerial office and from his parliamentary mandate in protest against his LAOS party's abstention from voting on the EU and IMF's austerity and reform package. Georgiadis deviated from the LAOS party line and voted "Yes".

Georgiadis moved to Nea Dimokratia in February 2012 and was elected as a member of parliament in the elections in May 2012, June 2012, January 2015, September 2015 and July 2019. From 2013 to 2014 he was the successor to Andreas Lykourentzos Minister of Health in Andonis Samara's cabinet . Georgiadis was parliamentary group leader of the Nea Dimokratia in the Greek parliament until November 23, 2015 .

On September 28, 2015, he announced his candidacy for the chairmanship of the Nea Dimokratia. In the election by 404,078 supporters of the party on December 20, 2015, he received 11.4% of the vote and did not make it into the runoff on January 10, 2016, which Kyriakos Mitsotakis ultimately won. After his election victory, Mitsotakis made Georgiadis his first deputy.

Georgiadis has been Minister for Economic Development and Investment since July 9, 2019.

Political views and political work

Georgiadis represents liberal views and is a firm supporter of the EU and IMF's austerity and reform course. His strict support for the reform program, which is commonly known in Greece as a memorandum , earned him a lot of open antipathy, but also sympathy. He often referred to himself in a deliberately provocative manner as the most loyal to the memorandum .

As Minister for the Merchant Navy, Georgiadis initiated numerous business-friendly reforms, including the lifting of cabotage restrictions . As Minister of Health, between 2013 and 2015, he reduced the annual budget of his department from 7.4 billion to 5.4 billion euros, but despite the strict austerity measures, introduced a law that guaranteed free medical care to everyone who had lost their health insurance provided around EUR 200 million in budget funds for this purpose.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Παρασκήνια από το γάμο Άδωνι Γεωργιάδη και Ευγενίας Μανωλίδου , www.madata.gr of July 24, 2009, last accessed on June 15, 2015
2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from October 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ( Greek )
3. ↑ Group leaders are Mitsotakis and Georgiadis , (gr.) From article in To Vima of October 5, 2015, last accessed on October 11, 2015
4. ↑ Summary from TV show Enikos ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ( Greek )
5. ↑ Statistics of the health insurance companies on Diavgeia , (large) from December 30, 2014, last accessed on December 9, 2015
6. ↑ Ta Nea newspaper , (large) from June 27, 2014, last accessed on December 9, 2015