Nikitas Kaklamanis

Nikitas Kaklamanis (Greek Νικήτας Κακλαμάνης; born April 1, 1946, Andros ) is a Greek politician. He was until the end of 2010 the mayor of Athens.

Kaklamanis was in Andros, the northernmost island of the Cyclades, was born. He studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medicine and graduated in 1971, specializing in radiotherapy and oncology. In 1981 he received his doctorate and was appointed assistant professor of radiation oncology elected in 1989 at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

1986 Kaklamanis was elected to the Central Committee of New Democracy. In 1987, in the Executive Committee of the party. In the same year Kaklamanis was elected with 93 percent for the second time as Secretary-General of the Pan - Hellenic Medical Association.

1990 first elected for the New Democracy party in the Greek Parliament, Kaklamanis was after he could defend his seat in the 1993 Greek Parliament October, between July 1994 and July 1999 Member of the European Parliament for the Politiki Anixi. In the European Parliament he was a member of the Union for Europe.

2000 and then in 2004 he was again elected for the New Democracy party in the Greek Parliament. March 2004 Kaklamanis was appointed Minister for Health and Social Solidarity. He held this office until February 2006.

On 15 October 2006 he was elected as the new mayor of the Greek capital Athens, and took office in January 2007. Three weeks after taking office Kaklamanis met with the mayors of Rome and Paris to call for the universal abolition of the death penalty.

In the local elections in November 2010 Kaklamanis defeated his rival candidate Giorgos Kaminis by PASOK.

In the parliamentary elections in 2012, he was elected to Parliament as a Member of ND again.

In the local elections in 2014 he may run again for the office of mayor of Athens, but against the officially supported by the New Democracy candidate.

Awards

  • 2007: Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria
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