The President of the Hellenic Parliament

Nikitas Michail Kaklamanis

The Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament

Member of Parliament Athens A

Personal Info

Place and Date οf Birth:

He was born in Andros on 1/4/1946.

Profession:

Radiotherapist-Oncologist Doctor.
Assistant Professor.

Studies:

He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1971 and specialized in the field of Radiotherapy - Oncology. In 1981 he was appointed as a Doctor of Medicine of the University of Athens and in 1989 he was unanimously elected as Assistant Professor of the Athens Medical School in Oncology - Radiotherapy.

Foreign Languages:

English, French.

Parliamentary Activities

For the first time he was elected as a Member of Parliament with New Democracy in 1990, of which he was a Parliamentary Representative.
In the October 1993 elections, he was re-elected from the First District of Athens and in June 1994 he was re-elected as a member of the European Parliament representing the political party of the POL. AN.
During his term of office in the European Parliament, he was Vice-President of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a full member of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
He has also been a regular member of the European Parliament's Joint Committees with Turkey and Cyprus. During his tenure, he officially visited Turkey 10 times and had meetings with all the country's political leadership, trying to promote solutions to the chronic problems of Hellenism in the city.
In the 2000 elections, he was elected as a Member of Parliament from the First District of Athens representing the political party of New Democracy. He was given the responsibility of operating the Party's Health and Welfare Department.
A year later he was elected as a Coordinator of the Social Affairs Committee of New Democracy.
In the 2004 election, he was re-elected as MP in the first district of Athens with New Democracy once again, winning one of the leading positions in the confidence of his fellow citizens.
On June 17, 2012 he is re-elected Member of Parliament with the New Democracy.
In 2015, in the national elections of January 25, he was re-elected Member of the Parliament and on February 6, 2015 he was elected 4th Vice-President of the House with 247 votes.
Following, the September of 2015 elections, he was re-elected 4th Vice President of the House, gaining this time 267 votes, out of the total number of Members.
In the elections of July 7, 2019, he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament from the First District of Athens, and on July 18, he was elected 1st Vice-President of the House after being voted by 290 Members.
In the elections of May 21, 2023, he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament from the First District of Athens, and on May 29, he was re-elected 1st Vice-President of the House after being voted by 296 Members, a record number for parliamentary time.
In the elections of June 23, 2023, he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament from the First District of Athens.
On January 22, 2025 he was elected President of the Hellenic Parliament with 247 votes in favor.

Political/Social Activities

From 1975 to 2008 he served in the Aretaio Hospital, where from 1983 he was responsible for one of the two radiotherapy departments of the Hospital. He has extensive scientific-research work and is a member of many scientific companies.
From 1975 to 1989 he was involved in medical trade unions, being consistently elected first in all medical unions nationally. The culmination of this course is his election in 1987, for the second time, to the post of Secretary General of the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS), with the unprecedented 93% of the votes he was elected.
In 1986 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the New Democracy and in 1987 as a member of the Party's Executive Committee.
In March 2004 he took up the post of Minister of Health and Social Solidarity, a post he served until February 2006.
In the Prefectural and Municipal elections of October 15, 2006, he was elected as a Mayor of Athens with the combination "Athens, City of Our Life" and formally took in charge of the office in January 2007 until December 2010.
On May 15, 2007 he was elected as a President of the Central Union of Municipalities and Communities of Greece (KEDKE), until October 2011.

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