Minister

Georgios Floridis

He was born in Kilkis in 1956.

He studied at the Law Schools of Thrace and Thessaloniki.

He was elected first president of the Students' Association of the Law School of Thrace in 1974 and then president of the Students' Association of Kilkis Prefecture.

He worked as a lawyer in Kilkis and Thessaloniki.

In October 1994 he was elected Prefect of Kilkis and, a year later, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Prefectural Governments.\

From 1996 to 2011 he was a Member of Parliament for Kilkis, elected in five consecutive elections.

He was Deputy Minister of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation, Deputy Minister of Culture (responsible for Sports), Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance and Minister of Public Order.

During his parliamentary term, he was a member of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, the Special Standing Committee on Institutions and Transparency, the Special Standing Committee on the Audit of the State's Balance Sheet and Accounts, and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

In June 2011 he resigned as a Member of Parliament and returned to the practice of law.