Andreas Loverdos

Andreas Loverdos (2011)

Andreas Loverdos ( Greek Ανδρέας Λοβέρδος , born May 15, 1956 in Patras ) is a Greek politician . In the Papandreou cabinet , he was Minister of Labor and later Minister of Health and, most recently, Minister of Education in Samara's cabinet .

Loverdos studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 1973 to 1978 and then completed postgraduate studies in European law at the Institute for European Studies at the University of Brussels . After an internship with the European Community and doctorate in 1986 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( political crimes and terrorism ) as well as research stays at the Free University of Brussels, the London School of Economics and the Boston University , he was assistant professor for constitutional law at Pantion University Athens and a lawyer at the Supreme Court.

Andreas Loverdos was a member of PASOK for many years . He was first elected as a member of parliament in 2000. From January 2002 to March 2004 he served in the government of Konstantinos Simitis as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After PASOK won the parliamentary elections in 2009 , the new Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Labor. During the cabinet reshuffle on September 7, 2010, he moved to the Ministry of Health.

On December 3, 2012, Loverdos turned away from PASOK, which supported the austerity policy of the Samara government, and founded the Rizospastiki Kinisi Sosialdimokratikis Symmachias (RIKSSY) (Radical Movement of the Social Democratic Alliance). He was then expelled from the PASOK parliamentary group. The Symfonia gia tin nea Ellada (SNEL) (Συμφωνία για τη Νέα Ελλάδα), whose chairman is Loverdos, has since emerged from the RIKSSY . At the end of August 2014, Loverdos joined the PASOK faction in the Greek parliament without dissolving his new SNEL party. After the 2014 European elections , he was Minister of Education in the Samara cabinet until January 26, 2015.

Web links

• Profile of Andreas Loverdos on the Greek Parliament website
• loverdos.gr Personal homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://thesis.ekt.gr/content/index.jsp?ID=0211&p=1&lang=el (link not available)
2. ↑ List of ministers of the Simitis government 2000–2004
3. ^ List of ministers in the Papandreou government 2009–2011
4. ↑ NZZ of December 4, 2012
5. ↑ Δεν διαλύει το κόμμα του ο Λοβέρδος παρά την επιστροφή του στο ΠΑΣΟΚ ( Memento from August 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) August 23, 2014
6. ↑ List of ministers in the Samaras cabinet 2012–2015 (Greek)