Fani Palli-Petralia (born August 10, 1943) is a

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lawyer,

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politician and a former Minister for Employment and Social Protection. She is also a former

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, the first woman to hold this position.

Life

Born in

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, she studied law at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

. She is married to Nikos Pallis and has three daughters and a son.

Political life

* She was elected MP for the Athens B constituency in the general elections of 1985, 1989 (June and November), 1990, 1993, 1996 and 2000. * She was elected to the ND Central Committee in 1990 and the Executive Committee in 1997. In 1999, she became president of the European Women’s Union. In 2002, she was elected president of the

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. * She served as Deputy Minister for Culture from 1990 to 1991 and Deputy Minister for Health, Welfare and Social Security from 1992 to 1993. She was Alternate Minister for Culture from 2004 to 2006. * She was appointed Minister for Tourism on 15 February 2006, and was not included in the Cabinet that was appointed after the September 2007 parliamentary election."New faces and trusted aides are unveiled in Karamanlis’s Cabinet"
ANA (ekathimerini.com), September 19, 2007. * On 18 December 2007, Palli-Petralia returned to the cabinet as Minister for Employment and Social Protection.

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