Antonis Roupakiotis ( el, Αντώνης Ρουπακιώτης) is a
Greek
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lawyer from
Athani,
Lefkada
Lefkada ( el, Λευκάδα, ''Lefkáda'', ), also known as Lefkas or Leukas (Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Λευκάς, ''Leukás'', modern pronunciation ''Lefkás'') and Leucadia, is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Gr ...
, who was elected for two tenures as chairman of the Athens Bar Association, and is a member of the
Hellenic Data Protection Authority
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.
On 17 May 2012, he was named as
Minister of Labour and Social Security in the
caretaker cabinet
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of
Panagiotis Pikrammenos
Panagiotis Pikrammenos ( el, Παναγιώτης Πικραμμένος, ; born 1945) is a Greek judge and politician who since 9 July 2019 serves as the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece.
He briefly served as the caretaker Prime Minister of Gree ...
, which led the country until the
June general election.
On 21 June 2012, he was sworn in as
Justice Minister
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in the
coalition cabinet
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of
Antonis Samaras
Antonis Samaras ( el, Αντώνης Σαμαράς, ; born 23 May 1951) is a Greek politician who served as 14th Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. Samara ...
as one of the four ministers proposed by the
Democratic Left. He remained in this post until the pull-out of Democratic Left from the government on 24 June 2013.
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20th-century Greek lawyers
People from Lefkada
Labour ministers of Greece
Justice ministers of Greece
1938 births
Living people
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