Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace


The Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace is the government minister in charge of Greece's Sub-Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, part of the Ministry of the Interior.
The department originated in the old Ministry of Northern Greece, which was renamed the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace on 19 August 1988.
The ministry was abolished on 7 October 2009 and downgraded to a general secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior, but was re-established on 21 June 2012. On 27 January 2015, it was again demoted to a sub-ministry within the Ministry of the Interior.

Ministers for Northern Greece (1974–1988)

Name Took OfficeLeft Office Party
Nikolaos Martis21 November 197421 October 1977New Democracy
Dionysios Arbouzis21 October 197728 November 1977New Democracy
Nikolaos Martis28 November 197721 October 1981New Democracy
Vassilios Intzes21 October 19815 June 1985PASOK
Andreas Papandreou5 June 198526 July 1985PASOK
Ioannis Papadopoulos26 July 19855 February 1987PASOK
Stelios Papathemelis5 February 198719 August 1988PASOK

Ministers for Macedonia and Thrace (1988–2009)

Name Took OfficeLeft Office Party
Stelios Papathemelis19 August 19882 July 1989PASOK
Panayiotis Chatzinikolaou2 July 198912 November 1989New Democracy
Ioannis Deligiannis12 November 198911 April 1990New Democracy
Georgios Tzitzikostas11 April 19908 August 1991New Democracy
Panayiotis Chatzinikolaou8 August 199113 October 1993New Democracy
Constantinos Triaridis13 October 199322 October 1996PASOK
Philippos Petsalnikos22 October 199630 October 1998PASOK
Giannis Magriotis30 October 19984 April 2000PASOK
Georgios Paschalidis13 April 20007 July 2003PASOK
Haris Kastanidis7 July 20033 March 2004PASOK
Nikos Tsiartsionis10 March 200415 February 2006New Democracy
Georgios Kalantzis15 February 200619 September 2007New Democracy
Margaritis Tzimas19 September 20078 January 2009New Democracy
Stavros Kalafatis8 January 20097 October 2009New Democracy

Ministers for Macedonia and Thrace (2012–2015)

Name Took OfficeLeft Office Party
21 June 201210 June 2014New Democracy
Georgios Orfanos10 June 201427 January 2015New Democracy

Deputy Ministers for Macedonia and Thrace (since 2015)

Name Took OfficeLeft Office Party
Maria Kollia-Tsaroucha27 January 201527 August 2015Independent Greeks
Filippos Tsalidis28 August 201521 September 2015Independent
Maria Kollia-Tsaroucha23 September 201529 August 2018Independent Greeks
29 August 201815 February 2019Syriza
15 February 20199 July 2019Syriza
Theodoros Karaoglou9 July 2019IncumbentNew Democracy