{"id":14750,"date":"2026-04-19T04:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/pasok-urges-mitsotakis-to-remove-deputy-minister-amid-ongoing-qualifications-row\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:39:38","slug":"pasok-urges-mitsotakis-to-remove-deputy-minister-amid-ongoing-qualifications-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/pasok-urges-mitsotakis-to-remove-deputy-minister-amid-ongoing-qualifications-row\/","title":{"rendered":"PASOK urges Mitsotakis to remove deputy minister amid ongoing qualifications row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301293\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pasok-40-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pasok-40.jpg\" alt=\"PASOK urges Mitsotakis to remove deputy minister amid ongoing qualifications row\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pasok-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n                                                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Hours after senior New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyannis called for the resignation of Deputy Agriculture Minister Makarios Lazaridis to \u201cfacilitate the prime minister and his party,\u201d the main opposition PASOK on Saturday sharply criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for keeping him in the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prime minister\u2019s insistence on keeping Mr Lazaridis in the cabinet is inexplicable, especially as even lawmakers from New Democracy are taking clear distances from him,\u201d PASOK said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much longer will Mr Mitsotakis maintain his personal patronage?\u201d the party added.<\/p>\n<p>Lazaridis, who was appointed in a limited government reshuffle earlier this month, has faced criticism over a degree he submitted in 2007 to serve as an expert scientist in the office of the late education minister Marietta Giannakou.<\/p>\n<p>He has refused to resign, saying that if he \u201cshould have been appointed as a special associate rather than a special adviser, this happened without any intervention or choice on my part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has also offered to return any salaries he improperly received, with interest \u2013 a statement PASOK on Saturday described as an explicit admission of guilt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1301293\/pasok-urges-mitsotakis-to-remove-deputy-minister-amid-ongoing-qualifications-row\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after senior New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyannis called for the resignation of Deputy Agriculture Minister Makarios Lazaridis to \u201cfacilitate the prime minister and his party,\u201d the main opposition PASOK on Saturday sharply criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for keeping him in the cabinet. \u201cThe prime minister\u2019s insistence on keeping Mr Lazaridis in the cabinet &#8230; 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