Dimitris Reppas ( el, Δημήτρης Ρέππας; born July 6, 1952 in

Leonidio Leonidio ( el, Λεωνίδιο, Katharevousa: Λεωνίδιον, Tsakonian: Αγιελήδι) is a town and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Kyn ...

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) is a

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politician of the

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and a current

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. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks and as the first Minister for Administrative Reform of Greece.

Life

Dimitris Reppas was born in 1952 in

, Arcadia. He graduated from the School of Dentistry of the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

, and is a member of the

Panhellenic Socialist Movement The Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social democracy, social-democratic List of political partie ...

since 1974. In 1975, he was elected as president of the students union of the Dental School of the

and as a member of the National Students Union, in the first elections after the end of the

Greek military junta of 1967–1974 The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels, . Also known within Greece as just the Junta ( el, η Χούντα, i Choúnta, links=no, ), the Dictatorship ( el, η Δικτατορία, i Diktatoría, links=no, ) or the Seven Years ( el, η Ε ...

. From 1976 until 1981, he was the Deputy Secretary of the PASOK youth wing. He was elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the first time in 1981, as a member of Parliament for the prefecture of Arcadia. In 1984, he was elected as a member of the PASOK Central Committee. In 1993, he was a member of the Presidency of PASOK's Parliamentary Group. In January 1996, he was appointed as Minister for Press and Public Transport as well as the Government Spokesman, a post that he held until 2001. In October 2001, he was elected as a member of the Executive Office of the PASOK Central Committee. On 24 October 2001, he was appointed as Minister for Employment and Social Security, a position that he held until the elections of March 2004. With PASOK's return to power after the October 2009 elections, Reppas was appointed as the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks. On 3 January 2015, it was announced that Reppas would join former

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in leaving PASOK to found the new

. Dimitris Reppas is fluent in English. He is married with two children.

Publications

* ''Face to Face with the Media''

References

External links

*
Biography of Dimitris Reppas
– {{DEFAULTSORT:Reppas, Dimitris 1952 births Living people Greek dentists National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni PASOK politicians Movement of Democratic Socialists politicians Government ministers of Greece Transport ministers Labour ministers of Greece Greek MPs 1981–1985 Greek MPs 1989 (June–November) Greek MPs 1989–1990 Greek MPs 1993–1996 Greek MPs 1996–2000 Greek MPs 2000–2004 Greek MPs 2004–2007 Greek MPs 2007–2009 Greek MPs 2009–2012 People from Leonidio