Dionysis Hatzidakis is the

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Palaio Faliro Palaio Faliro (, ; Katharevousa: Palaion Faliron, Παλαιόν Φάληρον, meaning "Old Phalerum") is a town on the Saronic Gulf coast and a municipality in the southern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. At the 2021 census it had ...

, one of the municipalities in the greater

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area,

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.http://www.palaiofaliro.gr/ retrieved July 2015 He was born in

Chania Chania (, , ), also sometimes romanization of Greek, romanized as Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania (regional unit), Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno ...

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. After graduating from the

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in 1965, he spent 27 years in the

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, commanding three warships. From 1991 to 1994 he served as Naval Attaché of Greece in

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where he participated in the renegotiation of the

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acquisition, the arrangements for the UNFICYP and the negotiations for the establishment of

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s in Cyprus. For nine years from 1994 he was the general director of the political office of the former

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Konstantinos Mitsotakis Konstantinos Mitsotakis (, ; – 29 May 2017) was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His son, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was elected as the Prime Mi ...

. In 1998 he stood as a candidate for Mayor of Palaio Faliro, but was defeated by Dimitris Kapsanis, coming second in the second round with 47.7% of the vote. In the municipal elections of 2002 he knocked out incumbent mayor Kapsanis in the first round and was elected in the second round with 53.6%, at the head of the alliance named “New Force for Faliro". He was re-elected in 2006, 2010 and 2014. In 2014 he was elected in the first round with 65.8% of the vote. He was elected to the

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in the

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from

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from

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Municipality of Palaio Faliro
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