Lefkada MP named deputy agriculture minister

Lefkada MP Athanasios Kavvadas has been appointed lawman agriculture curate pursuing the resignation of Makarios Lazaridis, the authorities said Monday.

Kavvadas, a low-profile lawmaker, was calved connected the Ionian land of Lefkada successful 1962 and entered the Hellenic Air Force Technical Warrant Officers School successful 1981. He aboriginal earned a master’s grade successful Philosophy and Management from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens successful 2020.

He was archetypal elected to Parliament successful September 2015, representing the Lefkada constituency, and was re-elected successful July 2019 and again successful some the May and June 2023 nationalist elections.

Lazaridis resigned connected Saturday, saying helium was stepping down to debar distracting the New Democracy medication from its work amid an ongoing quality implicit his world qualifications.

He had been appointed earlier this period successful a constricted furniture reshuffle that replaced ministers who stepped down aft their names appeared successful a caller lawsuit record linked to a widening workplace subsidies scandal.