{"id":14754,"date":"2026-04-19T06:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/bakoyannis-urges-deputy-minister-to-resign-over-degree-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:49:55","slug":"bakoyannis-urges-deputy-minister-to-resign-over-degree-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/bakoyannis-urges-deputy-minister-to-resign-over-degree-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakoyannis urges deputy minister to resign over degree controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301281\">\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\/2026\/04\/bakoyannis_web-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\/2026\/04\/bakoyannis_web.jpg\" alt=\"Bakoyannis urges deputy minister to resign over degree controversy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bakoyannis_web-960x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>File photo.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Dora Bakoyannis, a former minister and senior lawmaker with ruling New Democracy, said Saturday that Makarios Lazaridis should resign as deputy agriculture minister to \u201cfacilitate the prime minister and his party\u201d amid controversy over his academic qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole story is very troubling and comes at a cost for us,\u201d she told Mega TV. \u201cWhat happened took place 20 years ago, and it is clear that it was irregular,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case clouds the message of meritocracy, while we have made a tremendous effort all these years to bring back young people who left for abroad,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lazaridis, who was appointed in a limited government reshuffle earlier this month, has faced backlash over the degree he submitted in 2007 to serve as an expert scientist in the office of the late education minister, Marietta Giannakou.<\/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\/1301281\/bakoyannis-urges-deputy-minister-to-resign-over-degree-controversy\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo. Dora Bakoyannis, a former minister and senior lawmaker with ruling New Democracy, said Saturday that Makarios Lazaridis should resign as deputy agriculture minister to \u201cfacilitate the prime minister and his party\u201d amid controversy over his academic qualifications. \u201cThis whole story is very troubling and comes at a cost for us,\u201d she told Mega &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Bakoyannis urges deputy minister to resign over degree controversy\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/bakoyannis-urges-deputy-minister-to-resign-over-degree-controversy\/#more-14754\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bakoyannis urges deputy minister to resign over degree controversy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bakoyannis_web-960x600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}