Andreas Loverdos

Andreas Loverdos (Greek Ανδρέας Λοβέρδος, born May 15, 1956 in Patras ) is a Greek politician. From October 2009 he was Minister of Labour and Social Security, since September 2010 to May 2012 he was in charge of Health and Welfare.

Loverdos studied from 1973 to 1978 Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then completed a postgraduate course in European Law at the Institute for European Studies at the University of Brussels. After an internship at the European Community and, PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as research stays at the Free University of Brussels, the London School of Economics and Boston University, he served as assistant professor of constitutional law at the Pantion University of Athens and as a lawyer at the Supreme Court works ..

Andreas Loverdos was for many years a member of the PASOK. He was first elected in 2000 as a deputy in the Parliament. He served from January 2002 to March 2004 the government of Costas Simitis as deputy foreign minister.

After the election victory of PASOK in the parliamentary elections of 2009, the new Prime Minister George Papandreou appointed him as Minister of Labour in his cabinet. In the cabinet reshuffle on 7 September 2010 he joined the Ministry of Health.

On 3 December 2012, Loverdos turned by PASOK, which mittrug the austerity policy of the government Samaras, and founded the Rizospastiki Kinisi Sosialdimokratikis Symmachias ( Ri.KSSy. ) ( Radical movement of the Socialist Alliance). He was then expelled from the parliamentary group of PASOK. From Ri.K.S.Sy. now went forth the Symmachia gia tin nea Ellada (Alliance for the new Greece), whose chairman is Loverdos.