Giorgos Floridis

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Giorgos Floridis, 2011

Giorgos Floridis ( Greek Γιώργος Φλορίδης , born June 4, 1956 in Stavrochori, Kilkis ) is a Greek politician.

Life

Floridis studied law at the Democritus University of Thrace and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . He initially worked as a lawyer and served as Prefect of Kilkis Prefecture from 1994 to 1996 .

He was first elected to the Greek Parliament in the 1996 general election in Greece as a member of PASOK and was re-elected in the 2000 , 2004 , 2007 and 2009 elections.

He held high positions in the governments of Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis : From October 1998 to March 2000 as Deputy Minister for the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization, from April 2000 to October 2001 Deputy Minister of Education with responsibility for sport and the preparation of the 2004 Olympic Games ; from October 2001 to July 2003 he was Deputy Minister of Finance, then Minister of Public Order until March 2004.

On June 15, 2011, Floridis announced his resignation as an MP. He justified this step, with which he abandoned his party colleague Prime Minister Papandreou in a critical situation of the Greek financial crisis , with the fact that politicians of all parties had failed and relied on doing their own petty accounts.

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Individual evidence

  1. Süddeutsche from June 16, 2011: "Greece: The people rebel, the government wavers"