Dionysis Hatzidakis is the
mayor of
Palaio Faliro
Palaio Faliro ( el, Παλαιό Φάληρο, ; Katharevousa: Palaion Faliron, Παλαιόν Φάληρον, meaning "Old Phalerum") is a coastal district and a municipality in the southern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. At the 2011 c ...
, one of the municipalities in the greater
Athens area,
Greece.
[http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/ retrieved July 2015]
He was born in
Chania in
Crete. After graduating from the
Hellenic Naval Academy in 1965, he spent 27 years in the
Greek Navy, commanding three warships. From 1991 to 1994 he served as Naval Attaché of Greece in
Paris where he participated in the renegotiation of the
Mirage 2000
The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine, fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (''Arm ...
acquisition, the arrangements for the
UNFICYP
The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) is a United Nations peacekeeping force that was established under United Nations Security Council Resolution 186 in 1964 to prevent a recurrence of fighting following intercommunal violen ...
and the negotiations for the establishment of
Exocet missiles in Cyprus.
For nine years from 1994 he was the general director of the political office of the former
prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. In 1998 he stood as a candidate for Mayor of Palaio Faliro, but was defeated by
Dimitris Kapsanis, coming second in the second round with 47.7% of the vote.
In the municipal elections of 2002 he knocked out incumbent mayor Kapsanis in the first round and was elected in the second round with 53.6%, at the head of the alliance named “New Force for Faliro".
He was re-elected in 2006, 2010 and 2014. In 2014 he was elected in the first round with 65.8% of the vote.
He was elected to the
Hellenic Parliament
The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule (ancient Greece), Boule of the Greeks, Hellenes, label=none), also kno ...
in the
June 2023 Greek legislative election
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 25 June 2023. All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament were contested. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the snap vote after the May 2023 Greek legislative election, May 2023 electi ...
from
Athens B3
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
from
New Democracy.
References
External links
Municipality of Palaio Faliro
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mayors of places in Greece
Hellenic Navy officers
Politicians from Chania
Greek naval attachés
Military personnel from Chania
Greek MPs 2023–
New Democracy (Greece) politicians