Dora Bakogianni

Dora Bakogianni ( Greek Ντόρα Μπακογιάννη , born Theodora Mitsotaki ; born May 6, 1954 in Athens ) is a Greek politician. She is a member of the conservative party Nea Dimokratia (ND).

Dora Bakogianni

biography

Dora Bakogianni is the eldest daughter of the former Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis and the sister of the current Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis .

She attended the German School in Athens for a few years . Her family went into exile in 1968 and she attended the German school in Paris until she graduated from high school . She then studied political science and communication science at the University of Munich and later law in Athens. During her studies in Munich she met Pavlos Bakogiannis , her first husband. He had worked there during the military dictatorship in Greece as a journalist for Deutsche Welle against the military junta under Georgios Papadopoulos . After his marriage he became a member of parliament for the New Democracy and adviser to his father-in-law. On September 26, 1989, he was murdered by terrorists from the November 17th underground organization . In her second marriage, Dora Bakogianni is married to the Greek businessman Isidoros Kouvelos, with two children from her marriage to Pavlos Bakogiannis. Her son Kostas has been mayor of Athens since 2019 and was previously governor of the Central Greece region since 2014 . Before that, he was mayor of the city of Karpenisi since 2011 .

On December 13, 2002, Dora Bakogianni survived an assassination attempt, slightly injured. A mentally ill man shot her while she was driving in Athens.

Political career

Before her political career, Dora Bakogianni was her father's office manager after returning from their mutual exile during the dictatorship. Her political career began after her husband was murdered when she took over his parliamentary seat. After the election victory of Nea Dimokratia in 1990, she was minister of education in her father's cabinet until 1993.

She was the mayor of the Greek capital Athens from 2002 to 2006 and the first woman in this office. Dora Bakogianni became internationally known for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens during her tenure .

Dora Bakogianni (left) and her American counterpart Condoleezza Rice

She is considered one of the most popular politicians in the country, critics accuse her that her rise was based on her family relationships - a phenomenon typical of Greek politics.

From February 15, 2006 until the swearing-in of the new government under Giorgos Andrea Papandreou on October 7, 2009, she was Greek Foreign Minister in the governments of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis , again as the first woman in this office.

After Karamanlis resigned as party leader after the heavy defeat of the Nea Dimokratia in the parliamentary elections in 2009 , Dora Bakogianni ran for party chairmanship. In the direct election by the party base on October 29, 2009, however, after a bitter election campaign, she was defeated by Antonis Samaras , who had last been one of the party's top politicians in 1992 and who left the party with his politician Anixi between 1993 and 2004 .

When she voted on May 6, 2010 with the ruling PASOK for the government's austerity package , Samaras expelled her from the Nea Dimokratia (ND) faction and from the party. After being expelled from the party on May 6, 2010, she was an independent member of the Greek Parliament .

On July 11, 2010, Dora Bakogianni founded the Forum for Greece. The forum is a not for profit organization. The purpose of the forum is to solve the problems that hinder the development of Greece, to protect important principles such as democracy, equality and social justice, to promote the participation of all citizens in social and political life, to develop new ideas and strategies in the Meaning of fruitful cooperation with civil society.

A few months later, on November 21, 2010, Dora Bakogianni founded her new party, the (neo) liberal Dimokratiki Symmachia . At the beginning of 2012, the party could count on the support of a total of five members of the Greek parliament, who were also excluded from the ND. In the early parliamentary elections on May 6, 2012 , her party missed re-entry into the Greek parliament with 2.55 percent. In the new elections on June 17, 2012 , the Dimokratiki Symmachia did not run, but supported the Nea Dimokratia . Bakogianni was - along with other party members - put up and elected as a candidate on the list of the Nea Dimokratia. In May 2014, the Dimokratiki Symmachia finally rejoined the Nea Dimokratia. In the January 2015 election , she was elected to parliament as a member of Nea Dimokratia. Her brother Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been chairman of the party since January 2016 .

Honors

In March 1992 Dora Bakogianni received the "International Leadership Award" from the International Women's Center. In June 1993 she was honored by the 14th International Symposium "Fontana di Roma" as a prominent personality in the cultural field.

In 2003, at the invitation of the then President of the European Commission Romano Prodi, she took part in a round table with twelve other prominent personalities in Europe to discuss questions about the social character, cultural identity and financial plan of Europe. In December 2005, Dora Bakogianni was elected the first “World Mayor” in the context of the annual call for tenders from the international organization “City Mayors”. It received the most positive comments among 550 mayors around the world.

In 2008, Dora Bakogianni was awarded the “ Kaiser Maximilian Prize for European Merit on Regional and Local Level ” in Innsbruck . In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Forbes magazine named Dora Bakogianni as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world . In 2009 Dora Bakogianni was recognized as the first foreign partner of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . Two days earlier, in Salzburg, she was also made an honorary senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts .

In 2010 Dora Bakogianni was awarded the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor (Ordre National de Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur).

literature

• Dora Bakojannis , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 17/2010 of April 27, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Dora Bakoyannis  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• personal website
• Political party website
• Article on the award of honorary senators

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official curriculum vitae on the website of the City of Athens. Retrieved September 21, 2019 (Greek). 
2. ^ The Greek Elections of 2012 and Greece's Future in the Eurozone by Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos. S. 2. - Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Focus.de of May 21, 2012: "Greek Conservatives are pooling their forces - Bakogianni back"
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Website of the Greek Parliament
6. ↑ Emperor Maximilian Prize ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Forbes 2006
8. ^ Forbes 2007
9. ^ Forbes 2008
10. ↑ Associate Member of the French Academy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Honorary Senator European Academy
12. ↑ National Order of the Chivalry of the Legion of Honor ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ Athens News Agency
14. ↑ Greece newspaper from May 7, 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Emperor Maximilian Prize ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Associate Member of the French Academy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ^ Honorary Senator European Academy
18. ↑ National Order of the Chivalry of the Legion of Honor ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.