Spyridon-Adonis Georgiadis, commonly known as Adonis Georgiadis, is a Greek politician, author, publisher and former telemarketer.
35 Facts About Adonis Georgiadis
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Adonis Georgiadis previously served in the same cabinet as Minister for Labour and Social Security, Minister for Development and Investment in the First Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister for Health in the Cabinet of Antonis Samaras and Deputy Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping in the Cabinet of Lucas Papademos.
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Adonis Georgiadis graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history from the Department of History and Archaeology of the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens.
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Adonis Georgiadis joined the Popular Orthodox Rally in 2003, serving as party spokesman from December 2003 to August 2007.
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Adonis Georgiadis ran for the office of Prefect of Athens in the 2006 local elections.
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Adonis Georgiadis ran as the LAOS candidate for Governor of Attica in the 2010 local elections.
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On 11 November 2011, Adonis Georgiadis was appointed Deputy Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping in the coalition government of Lucas Papademos.
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Adonis Georgiadis resigned the position on 11 February 2012, amidst a row with party leader Georgios Karatzaferis over the latter's opposition to the Second Economic Adjustment Programme for Greece.
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Adonis Georgiadis was re-elected on the New Democracy ticket at the elections held in May and June 2012, and has retained his seat at every election held since, representing Athens B until 2019 and Athens B1 thereafter.
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Adonis Georgiadis was appointed Minister for Health in the coalition government of Antonis Samaras, serving from June 2013 to June 2014.
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In September 2014, Adonis Georgiadis was appointed parliamentary spokesman for New Democracy.
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Adonis Georgiadis campaigned for liberal reforms, tax and spending cuts and a battle against the "ideological hegemony" of the Left.
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On 18 January 2016, Adonis Georgiadis was appointed one of the party's two vice-presidents, serving alongside Kostis Hatzidakis ever since.
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Adonis Georgiadis publishes the magazine Elliniki Agogi, which covers issues of national and historical interest.
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In 1994, Adonis Georgiadis founded an organization of the same name to promote the teaching of the language and civilization of ancient Greece to children and adults.
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Adonis Georgiadis has written Homosexuality in Ancient Greece: the Myth Collapses in which he argues that whereas homosexuality was present in Ancient Greece as in other countries, its extent and social acceptance have been inflated.
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Adonis Georgiadis had previously written a Guide to Ancient Greek Coins.
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Adonis Georgiadis has written the historical novel Theodora Phranza: or, the Fall of Constantinople.
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Adonis Georgiadis reply was that he had never hidden he had adapted a previous work.
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Adonis Georgiadis' speaking style might have a nuance of the more formal katharevousa.
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Adonis Georgiadis has called for more research to investigate whether the introduction of the monotonic system was beneficial or not to the Greek culture and education.
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Adonis Georgiadis often condemns the opinions expressed in left-wing publications such as Eleftherotypia or by left-wing politicians such as those of Syriza, with both parties having exchanged sharp-tongued criticism.
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Adonis Georgiadis routinely condemned the policies of the two former leading Greek parties, New Democracy and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, which he viewed as two sides of the same coin.
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Adonis Georgiadis has often used the term tholokoultoura to group his left-wing ideological opponents:.
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Adonis Georgiadis described himself as "liberal" in economic matters, while often stated that is necessary to break the "hegemony of the Left on the ideas" inside the Greek society.
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Adonis Georgiadis stated "I want to be in Greece, what Nicolas Sarkozy is in France", while rejected the policies of Marine Le Pen and her euroscepticism as anti-European.
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Adonis Georgiadis has many times expressed his will for the abolition of the "university asylum", stating that it is only a tool for the anarchists to burn and destroy Greek universities.
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Adonis Georgiadis is in favour of putting an end to Greece's "eternal students", people who have been enrolled at university for years without graduating.
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Adonis Georgiadis has been criticised, among other things, because of his past with the Popular Orthodox Rally party, for a series of far-right positions that he has formulated, but for the closure of five hospitals in Athens and Thessaloniki during his tenure as Minister for Health.
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Adonis Georgiadis himself denies that he has been a far-rightist.
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Adonis Georgiadis has countered that he sells these books like other Greek bookstores, saying that he disagrees with their content.
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On 16 November 2017, Adonis Georgiadis announced that he would cease working as a telemarketer.
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On February 1,2021, Adonis Georgiadis mocked the move of the restaurant businessmen to hand over the keys of their shops to the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who with one of the most extreme quarantines for COVID-19 in the world has banned the operation of these businesses for months.
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Adonis Georgiadis has since moved this bookstore, stating that he did so to protect the anti-riot police that was tasked to protect his business.
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Adonis Georgiadis is married to classical composer and reality TV celebrity Eugenia Manolidou raising a son and a daughter from her previous marriage, and two own sons named Athanasios-Perseas born 2009 and Alkaios-Anastasios, born 2014.