Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Prokopis Pavlopoulos (2016)

Prokopis Pavlopoulos ( Greek Προκόπης Παυλόπουλος , born July 10, 1950 in Kalamata ) is a Greek legal scholar and politician. He was head of state of Greece from 2015 to early 2020 .

Life

Pavlopoulos studied constitutional and administrative law at the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris . He has taught at the University of Athens since 1980, as a professor since 1986. He was also an adviser to several Greek Conservative Prime Ministers. In 1989 he was appointed full professor for administrative law.

Pavlopoulos worked in 1974 as the secretary of the Greek President Michail Stasinopoulos , with whom he was connected during the military dictatorship (1967-1974) when Stasinopoulos was under house arrest. From November 1989 to April 1990 he was Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesman in the all-party coalition of Xenophon Zolotas , from 1990 to 1995 he was legal advisor to President Konstantinos Karamanlis and political advisor to the chairman of the Nea Dimokratia , Miltiadis Evert . In the parliamentary elections in 1996 and the 2000 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the New Democracy. After the parliamentary elections in 2004 , won by the Nea Dimokratia, Pavlopoulos became Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis ( Karamanlis I cabinet ) in March 2004 . The Ministry of the Interior was called “Ministry of Internal Affairs, Public Administration and Decentralization” until the parliamentary elections in Greece in 2007 and from then on was called “Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Order”.

Pavlopoulos was also Minister of the Interior in the Karamanlis II cabinet from September 19, 2007 to September 11, 2009.

In the early parliamentary elections in October 2009 , PASOK received an absolute majority of the parliamentary seats; thus ended the five and a half year reign of the Nea Dimokratia.

He is a member of the Central Committee of the New Democracy.

In the presidential election on February 18 2015 Pavlopoulos was the candidate of the ruling SYRIZA - ANEL coalition under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with 233 of 300 deputies votes for Greek President elected. His term of office began on March 13, 2015. On March 13, 2020, he was replaced by his successor, Katerina Sakellaropoulou .

Political positions

As President Pavlopoulos made threats against Albania's rapprochement with the EU , which he justified with a visit by the Albanian President to Kosovo .

criticism

Pavlopoulos has been criticized for inflating the civil service by hiring 865,000 civil servants during his five-and-a-half-year tenure as interior minister.

Web links

Commons : Prokopis Pavlopoulos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on the website of Prokopis Pavlopoulos
• Video stream of the swearing-in of the new President and subsequent assumption of office Mediathek [ERT] (Greek)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thierry Oberlé, Alexia Kefalas: Pavlopoulos, un ministre de l'Intérieur dans la tourmente . Le Figaro , December 11, 2008.
2. ↑ Πρ.Παυλόπουλος: "Κοινός αγώνας για να βγει ο τόπος από αυτό το τέλμα " - Συνάντηση του υποψηφίου Προέδρου με τον Πρωθυπουργό . To Vima , February 17, 2015 ( Greek ).
3. ↑ Πολιτική Επιτροπή . Nea Dimokratia (Greek)
4. ↑ Athens: Prokopis Pavlopoulos is the new president of Greece . Spiegel Online , February 18, 2015.
5. ↑ Greece has for the first time a woman at the head of the state. In: derStandard.at . March 13, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 . 
6. ^ President Pavlopoulos: Unfortunately, Albania is undermining its accession course , ERT , October 15, 2017
7. ↑ Greek President ride rates threats against Albania's EU accession , Top Channel , October 15, 2017
8. ^ Christiane Schlötzer : Reforms in Greece: Tsipras in a hurry . Süddeutsche.de , February 20, 2015.
   Conservative presidential candidate of the left-right coalition . Greece Newspaper , February 17, 2015.