Zoe Rapti (; born 1966) is a Greek lawyer and politician, who has been a Member of the

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for the

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party for

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since 2019. She served as Deputy Minister for Mental Health in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis from 2020 to 2023.

Biography

Rapti was born in Athens and lives in the

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municipality. She studied law at the

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(1984–1989) and then undertook postgraduate study at the

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in the

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(1990–1991), where she received a

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with honours in International Commercial Law. From 1991 to 2014, Rapti worked as a lawyer in Athens in the

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where she specialised in environmental and surveyance law. She collaborated with the "Chamber of Environment and Sustainability" from 2001 to 2005 and with the general secretariat of the Olympic Games in the

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on the sustainability and shared use of Olympic facilities from 2004 to 2006.

Political career

Rapti was municipal councillor of

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from 1998 until 2014, serving as deputy mayor from 2005 to 2006 and in 2009, chair of the municipal council in 2007, and representative of the municipality in the Central Union of Greek Municipalities (ΚΕΔΕ) from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2015, she was General Secretary of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute of Democracy. She was Secretary of Party Social Relations and a member of the health, labour, and community solidarity divisions of the

party from 2016 to 2018. Rapti was a candidate for the New Democracy party in the

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. She participated in both the

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and

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2015 elections, standing for the New Democracy party in Athens B, but did not win a seat. In April 2019 she was sworn in as member of parliament after the resignation of

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. She was re-elected as member of parliament for Athens B in the July 2019 election and in the May 2023 election. Since 5 August 2020, Rapti has been a Deputy Minister of Health, with responsibility for

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in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rapti, Zoe New Democracy (Greece) politicians Greek MPs 2019–2023 Women members of the Hellenic Parliament Health ministers of Greece Living people Politicians from Athens Alumni of the University of Kent Greek MPs 2023– 21st-century Greek women politicians 1966 births