First Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis

The First Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in on 9 July 2019, following the Greek legislative election in July 2019. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of New Democracy, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Greece on 8 July.

First Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Cabinet of Greece
Kyriakos Mitsotakis in 2019
Date formed	9 July 2019 (2019-07-09)
Date dissolved	25 May 2023 (2023-05-25)
People and organisations
Head of state	Prokopis Pavlopoulos (until 13 March 2020) Katerina Sakellaropoulou (since 13 March 2020)
Head of government	Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Deputy head of government	Panagiotis Pikrammenos
No. of ministers	20
Total no. of members	58
Member parties	New Democracy
Status in legislature	Majority 158 / 300 (53%)
Opposition parties	Syriza Movement for Change Communist Party of Greece Greek Solution MeRA25
Opposition leader	Alexis Tsipras
History
Election	2019 Greek legislative election
Legislature term	18th (2019–2023)
Predecessor	Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras
Successor	Caretaker Cabinet of Ioannis Sarmas

The government consists of a total of 58 members, including 20 ministers, 5 alternate ministers and 31 deputy ministers.^[1] Of these, 35 are elected members of the Hellenic Parliament and 23 are unelected technocrats.^[2] Ten members of the government are women.

Prime and Deputy Prime Ministers

	Office	Incumbent	Party		In office since
	Prime Minister	Kyriakos Mitsotakis	*	New Democracy	8 July 2019
	Deputy Prime Minister	Panagiotis Pikrammenos	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019

Ministers

Full ministers (in bold in the table below) are responsible for:

• the identification of ministerial policy in the cabinet
• the representation in bodies of the European Union
• the appointment of administrative agencies, public services and personnel

Alternate Ministers are directly assigned special responsibilities and powers by the prime minister, including:

• full parliamentary powers and, in conjunction with the minister, the legislative initiative
• the right to issue individual and normative acts, and to propose individual and normative decrees

Deputy ministers are assigned with responsibilities and powers by the prime minister and the full minister they report to. Deputy ministers may attend cabinet meetings.

Ministry	Office	Incumbent	Party		In office since
1. Ministry of Finance	Minister for Finance	Christos Staikouras	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Alternate Minister for Fiscal Policy	Theodoros Skylakakis		New Democracy	5 August 2020
	Deputy Minister for Tax Policy and Public Property	Apostolos Vesyropoulos	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
2. Ministry of Development and Investment	Minister for Development and Investment	Adonis Georgiadis	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Alternate Minister for Private Investment	Nikos Papathanasis		New Democracy	5 August 2020
	Deputy Minister for Public Investment and the Partnership Agreement for the Development Framework	Giannis Tsakiris [el]			9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for Research and Innovation	Christos Dimas	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Nikos Dendias	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Alternate Minister for European Affairs	Miltiadis Varvitsiotis	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Extroversion	Kostas Frangogiannis [el]			9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for Greeks Abroad	Andreas Katsaniotis	*	New Democracy	31 August 2021
4. Ministry of Citizen Protection	Minister for Citizen Protection	Takis Theodorikakos [el]	*	New Democracy	31 August 2021
	Deputy Minister for Anti-Crime Policy	Eleftherios Oikonomou			9 July 2019
5. Ministry of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection [el]	Minister for the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection	Christos Stylianides		Democratic Rally	10 September 2021
	Deputy Minister	Evangelos Tournas [el]			10 September 2021
6. Ministry of National Defence	Minister for National Defence	Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister	Nikos Hardalias [el]		New Democracy	31 August 2021
7. Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs	Minister for Education and Religious Affairs	Niki Kerameus	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for Primary, Secondary and Special Education	Zetta Makri [el]	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
	Deputy Minister for Higher Education	Angelos Syrigos [el]	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
8. Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs	Minister for Labour and Social Affairs	Kostis Hatzidakis	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
	Deputy Minister for Social Security	Panagiotis Tsakloglou [el]			5 August 2020
	Deputy Minister for Welfare and Social Solidarity	Domna Michailidou		New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for Demographic Policy and the Family	Maria Syrengela [el]		New Democracy	5 January 2021
9. Ministry of Health	Minister for Health	Thanos Plevris	*	New Democracy	31 August 2021
	Alternate Minister for Health Services	Mina Gaga [el]		New Democracy	31 August 2021
	Deputy Minister for Mental Health	Zoi Rapti	*	New Democracy	5 August 2020
10. Ministry of the Environment and Energy	Minister for the Environment and Energy	Kostas Skrekas	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
	Deputy Minister for Environmental Protection	Giorgos Amyras [el]	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
	Deputy Minister for Spatial Planning and the Urban Environment	Nikos Tagaras [el]	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
11. Ministry of Culture and Sports	Minister for Culture and Sports	Lina Mendoni			9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for Modern Culture	Nicholas Yatromanolakis			5 January 2021
	Deputy Minister for Sports	Lefteris Avgenakis [el]	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
12. Ministry of Justice	Minister for Justice	Kostas Tsiaras	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for International Cooperation and Human Rights	Giorgos Kotsiras [el]	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
13. Ministry of the Interior	Minister for the Interior (caretaker)	Calliope Spanou			23 April 2023
	Alternate Minister for Local Government	Stelios Petsas [el]		New Democracy	5 January 2021
	Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace	Stavros Kalafatis [el]	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
14. Ministry of Digital Governance	Minister of State (de jure); Minister for Digital Governance (de facto)	Kyriakos Pierrakakis			9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for Telecommunications and the Land Registry	Theodoros Livanios		New Democracy	13 August 2021
15. Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport	Minister of State (de jure); Minister for Infrastructure and Transport (de facto)	Giorgos Gerapetritis	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019; 1 March 2023
	Deputy Minister for Transport	Michalis Papadopoulos [el]	*	New Democracy	31 August 2021
	Deputy Minister for Infrastructure	Giorgos Karagiannis [el]		New Democracy	31 August 2021
16. Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy	Minister for Shipping and Island Policy	Ioannis Plakiotakis	*	New Democracy	9 July 2019
	Deputy Minister for the Shipping Industry	Kostas Katsafados [el]	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021
17. Ministry of Rural Development and Food	Minister for Rural Development and Food	Georgios Georgantas [el]	*	New Democracy	8 February 2022
	Deputy Minister for the Common Agricultural Policy	Giorgos Stylios [el]	*	New Democracy	13 August 2021
	Deputy Minister for Fisheries Policy	Simos Kedikoglou [el]	*	New Democracy	31 August 2021
18. Ministry of Tourism	Minister for Tourism	Vasilis Kikilias	*	New Democracy	31 August 2021
	Deputy Minister for Tourism Education and Special Forms of Tourism	Sofia Zacharaki		New Democracy	5 January 2021
19. Ministry of Immigration and Asylum [el]	Minister for Immigration and Asylum	Notis Mitarachi	*	New Democracy	15 January 2020
	Deputy Minister for Integration	Sofia Voultepsi	*	New Democracy	5 January 2021

Ministers of State

Office	Incumbent	Party		In office since
Minister of State for Government Coordination; Government spokesman	Akis Skertsos [el]		New Democracy	13 August 2021; 21 April 2023
Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister	Giannis Bratakos [el]		New Democracy	2 September 2022
Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister for State Aid and Recovery from Natural Disasters	Christos Triantopoulos [el]		New Democracy	13 August 2021
Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister for Communications and Information	Giannis Oikonomou [el]	*	New Democracy	13 August 2021
Consultant on International Issues and Relations with International Media	Aristotelia Peloni		New Democracy	21 April 2023

Note: An asterisk (*) indicates an elected member of the Hellenic Parliament.

References

1. "Σύνθεση της Κυβέρνησης" [Composition of the Government] (in Greek). Athens: Government of Greece. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
2. Καντέλης, Γιάννης (2019-07-08). "Οι 21 εξωκοινοβουλευτικοί υπουργοί και υφυπουργοί του Μητσοτάκη". iefimerida.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2019-07-10.