Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a Greek politician serving as the prime minister of Greece since 8 July 2019.
35 Facts About Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis previously was Leader of the Opposition from 2016 to 2019, and Minister of Administrative Reform from 2013 to 2015.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the son of the late Konstantinos Mitsotakis, who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B constituency in 2004.
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However, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has received criticism, as during his term, Greece has experienced heightened corruption, and a deterioration of freedom of the press.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis's term was marred by the Novartis corruption scandal, the 2022 wiretapping scandal, and the Tempi Train crash.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis was born in Athens on 4 March 1968, the son of Marika and former Greek prime minister and New Democracy president Konstantinos Mitsotakis.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis controversially described the first six months of his life as political imprisonment.
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From 1990 to 1991 Kyriakos Mitsotakis worked as a financial analyst at the corporate finance division of Chase Bank in London.
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From 1991 to 1992, Kyriakos Mitsotakis returned to Greece and joined the Hellenic Army to fulfil his mandatory national service obligations.
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Mitsotakis is honorary president of Konstantinos K Mitsotakis Foundation, aiming at promoting the life and works of Konstantinos Mitsotakis and at reporting the modern political history of Greece.
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On 24 June 2013, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was appointed as the Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance in Antonis Samaras' cabinet, succeeding Antonis Manitakis.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis steadfastly supported the drastic downsizing of the Public Sector and the structural reform of the tax administration.
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In 2015, Kyriakos Mitsotakis served as a parliamentary representative for New Democracy, representing the President of the party in Parliament, as well as the body of the party's Representatives.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis was charged with expressing the positions of his party during Parliamentary procedures and discourse, as well as ensuring the proper function of Parliament through a process of checks and balances.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis was the first of four New Democracy members to announce their candidacy in the leadership election, declared following the resignation of Antonis Samaras as party leader and the failure of New Democracy in the September 2015 snap election.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis managed to win back votes from the Golden Dawn Party.
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On 8 July 2019, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos accepted Tsipras' resignation and tasked Kyriakos Mitsotakis with forming a new government.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as prime minister the same day as well.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis had criticized the initially slow pace of the EU's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and he had called for its acceleration.
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In July 2020, Kyriakos Mitsotakis awarded honorary Greek citizenship to American actor Tom Hanks and his wife, American actress Rita Wilson, the latter of whom is half Greek.
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On May 16,2022, Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with US President Joe Biden at the White House.
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However, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has received criticism, as during his term, Greece has experienced heightened corruption, and a deterioration of freedom of the press.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis's term was marred by the Novartis corruption scandal, the 2022 wiretapping scandal, and the Tempi Train crash.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis adopted a hardline stance on the European Migrant Crisis by resorting to pushbacks of thousands of migrants in an attempt to prevent their entry into Greece, which his government has denied.
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In December 2020, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was criticized after a photo of him surfaced on social media, in which he posed with five other people while not wearing a mask, during a time when Greece had a nationwide lockdown and mask wearing was mandatory both indoors and outdoors.
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On 6 February 2021 Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the island of Icaria to inspect the progress of COVID-19 vaccinations in the area.
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The incident was covered by both Greek and international media and Kyriakos Mitsotakis was heavily criticized for violating the existing COVID-19 containment measures.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis publicly apologized for the Icaria incident, saying this will never happen again and that "the image hurt the citizens".
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In May 2021, when the Kyriakos Mitsotakis government announced the country's opening for tourism on 14 May, because movement control measures, such as the obligation to send an SMS at particular sites, were retained temporarily.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to a roadmap for lifting the controls, but did not elaborate.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself has actively worked to block any investigation on the wiretapping scandal from concluding.
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Amid rising anger and nationwide protests, Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered "a public apology on behalf of those who ruled the country over the years", took responsibility for the disaster and vowed to fix the long-neglected rail system.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the younger brother of former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Mayor of Athens Dora Bakoyannis, making him the brother-in-law of the late Pavlos Bakoyannis, who was assassinated by the terrorist group 17 November in 1989 and the uncle of Kostas Bakoyannis, former Regional Governor of Central Greece and current Mayor of Athens.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis is married to Mareva Grabowska, an investment banker with British, Greek, Polish and Egyptian roots.