New government members sworn in

The new ministers of the Greek government were sworn in Saturday before the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos. In the presence od MP Alexis Tsipras the new faces to take up their portfolios are:

Panos Skourletis- Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction (moved from Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity)

Christoforos Vernardakis- Deputy Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction

Trifon Alexiadis-Deputy Minister of Finance

Pavlos Polakis-Deputy Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction

Sia Anagnostopoulou-Deputy Foreign Minister

Giannis Amanatidis-Deputy Foreign Minister

Pavlos Haikalis-Deputy Minister of Social Security

Dimitris Vitsas-Deputy Minister of Defence

Olga Gerovasili-Government Spokesperson

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