Minister for Justice (Greece)

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The Minister for Justice of Greece is the government minister responsible for the running of the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice was initially established as the State Justice Secretariat in April 1833. It is responsible for the Judicial Branch of the government of Greece and supervises the organisational structure of the courts as well as their financing. Another important function of the ministry is the maintenance of the independence of the Judicial Branch from the other two branches of government: Executive and Legislative. Land registries and the maintenance of prisons also falls within its jurisdiction.

In October 2009, the Ministry's titled was expanded to Justice, Transparency and Human Rights.

The current minister is Charalambos Athanasiou.


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List of Ministers for Justice

Name Took Office Left Office Party
Georgios Kouvelakis October 13, 1993 February 10, 1995 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Anastasios Peponis February 10, 1995 September 15, 1995 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Ioannis Potakis September 15, 1995 January 22, 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Evangelos Venizelos January 22, 1996 August 30, 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Anargyros Fatouros August 30, 1996 September 25, 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Evangelos Giannopoulos September 25, 1996 March 20, 2000 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Dimitrios Gourgourakis March 20, 2000 April 13, 2000 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Michalis Stathopoulos April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Philippos Petsalnikos October 24, 2001 March 10, 2004 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Anastasios Papaligouras March 10, 2004 September 18 2007 New Democracy
Sotiris Hadjigakis September 19 2007 January 8, 2009 New Democracy
Nikolaos Dendias January 8, 2009 October 7, 2009 New Democracy
Haris Kastanidis October 7, 2009 June 17, 2011 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Miltiades Papaioannou June 17, 2011 May 17, 2012 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Christos Geraris May 17, 2012 June 21, 2012
Antonis Roupakiotis June 21, 2012 June 25, 2013
Charalambos Athanasiou June 25, 2013 Incumbent New Democracy


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