The provisional government was sworn in at noon at the Presidential Palace. John Sharma.

Particular importance was attached to the most important nationally significant ministries of foreign affairs and defense, where the first positions are held by an experienced diplomat with terms of office in Washington and the EU. Vassilis Cascareliswhile the Department of Defense is an experienced former Deputy Secretary of Defense and former A/GES Alcibiades Stephanis. In the equally critical Ministry of Civil Protection, because of the fires that threaten every summer, the post of minister is occupied by the current deputy minister Evangelos Turnasso that the ministry has continuity, as it knows all the issues. The Ministry of Civil Protection takes over another member of the Armed Forces, Mr. Charalambos Lalouzis, formerly A/GES. The new Minister of Health is very experienced and capable Anastasia Kotanidouprofessor of the department of pulmonology – resuscitation of the medical faculty of EKPA and resuscitator.

In general, the logic by which the provisional government was formed is that the new provisional ministers are directly related to the subject they are taking on. Characteristically, the former rector of the AUCP was the new minister of education. Christos Kittasand the Ministry of Culture is transferred to the artistic director of the National Opera George Kumentakis.

A separate category is the Ministry of Finance, which is headed by a professor of economic analysis and deputy governor of the Bank of Greece. Theodoros Pelagidis. It is no coincidence that this post is considered critical, since, as Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote in his letter to Acting Prime Minister Ioannis Sharma, “By the end of June, the European Commission will consider our country’s third request to the Recovery and Resilience Fund for the payment of a total amount of 1.72 billion euros. regarding the part of the “Greece 2.0” subsidies, which is especially important for a country that requires a person with experience, such as Mr. Pelagidis. In addition, the Prime Minister, in the same letter, informs that meetings of the technical levels of the Greek authorities are scheduled for June, coordinated by the General Secretariat, with the relevant levels of the European institutions (European Commission, European Central Bank, ESM) in the context of the third post-program oversight report, which is expected to be completed and published at the end of the third quarter of this year.

Also the new Minister of Development will be Mrs. Eleni Luri-Dendrinuprofessor at Athens University of Economics, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs moves to professor of public law Patrina PaparrigopoulouMinistry of Environment and Energy o Pantelis KaprosProfessor of Energy Economics and Business Studies, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.

Finally, the Minister of State takes over Vasilios Skouris, Professor of Public Law and from 2003 to October 7, 2015 President of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. He served twice as Acting Minister of the Interior in 1989 and 1996. The government representative will be a journalist Ilias Siakandaris.

Ioannis Sharmas is Maximos’ new tenant

Yesterday, the transfer of the post of Prime Minister to the new Acting Prime Minister, Ioannis Sharma, took place in the Maximos Palace until June 25, when the one elected by the Greek people will take over the government of the country. The acting prime minister was greeted by outgoing Kyriakos Mitsotakis, holding a blue envelope with the government’s priorities for the coming weeks, “so that there is continuity in the state.”

“I wish you strength in your duties and I am always at your disposal,” Mr. Mitsotakis said, while Mr. Sharma replied that “the Acting Prime Minister, Chief Justice, knows very well what he must only organize elections, and continue the functioning of the executive branch and the state without interruption until someone who is a natural beneficiary comes to this building.

Dialogue

“Mr. President, I welcome you to the Maximos Palace, I want to wish you good health in your duties as Acting Prime Minister, and I would like to take this opportunity to give you a rather large file, which includes a number of elements that , which I believe will be useful to you, such as a summary of the functions and results achieved by the chairmanship of the government, the implemented public policy plan for 2023, an overall note with the country’s international commitments, as well as critical operational milestones for the next quarter, as well as annual ministerial action plans. Mr. Mitsotakis emphasized that in this way “it is demonstrated that the state state ensures the continuity of the functioning of the state machine and, although the Constitution provides for a certain time for the performance of the duties of an interim government, as you know better than me, you are a government with full power, and therefore we must ensure that the transition from the outgoing government to the provisional government is carried out in compliance with all the rules that the succession of the state imposes.

For his part, the acting prime minister reiterated that “the government will, of course, have all the powers, but only the powers to implement the law until the one that comes from the will of the people returns here to Maximos.” Mr. Sharmas was sworn in before the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Archbishop Jerome.