Nikitas Kaklamanis

Nikitas Kaklamanis ( Greek Νικήτας Κακλαμάνης ; * April 1, 1946 in Andros ) is a Greek politician. He was MP, Minister and Mayor of Athens from 2006 to the end of 2010 .

Kaklamanis was born on Andros, the northernmost island of the Cyclades . He studied medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and graduated there in 1971, specializing in radiation therapy and oncology . In 1981 he received his doctorate and in 1989 he was elected Assistant Professor of Radiation Therapy at the Medical Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

In 1986, Kaklamanis was elected to the Central Committee of the New Democracy . In 1987 he joined the party's executive committee. In the same year, Kaklamanis was elected general secretary of the Pan-Hellenistic Medical Association for the second time with 93 percent.

First elected to the Greek parliament in 1990 for the Nea Dimokratia, Kaklamanis was a member of the European Parliament for the Anixi politicians between July 1994 and July 1999 after he was able to defend his seat in the Greek parliament in October 1993 . In the European Parliament he was a member of the Union for Europe group.

In 2000 and then in 2004 he was re-elected to the Greek Parliament for the New Democracy. In March 2004, Kaklamanis was appointed Minister of Health and Social Solidarity. He held this office until February 2006.

On October 15, 2006 he was elected the new mayor of the Greek capital Athens and took office in January 2007. Three weeks after his inauguration, Kaklamanis met with the mayors of Rome and Paris to call for the global abolition of the death penalty . In the local elections in November 2010, Kaklamanis was defeated by his opponent Giorgos Kaminis from PASOK .

In the parliamentary elections in 2012 he was appointed as deputy of ND back into Parliament elected. In the 2014 local elections he ran again for the office of mayor of Athens, but lost to Giorgos Kaminis .

Awards

2007: Great Golden Decoration on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria

Individual evidence

↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

Web links

Biography on www.citymayors.com (English)
Entry on Nikitas Kaklamanis in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

personal data
SURNAME	Kaklamanis, Nikitas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Κακλαμάνης, Νικήτας (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek politician, MEP and Mayor of Athens
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	on Andros

[1] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)