Nikitas Kaklamanis

Nikitas Kaklamanis
Νικήτας Κακλαμάνης
Kaklamanis in 2009
Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 January 2025
President	Katerina Sakellaropoulou Konstantinos Tasoulas
Preceded by	Konstantinos Tasoulas
Mayor of Athens
In office 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2010
Preceded by	Theodoros Bechrakis (acting)
Succeeded by	Giorgos Kaminis
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2012
Constituency	Athens A
In office 9 April 2000 – 22 December 2006
Constituency	Athens A
In office 8 April 1990 – 23 May 1994
Constituency	Athens A
Other political offices Deputy Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament In office 6 February 2015 – 4 July 2023 President Zoe Konstantopoulou Nikos Voutsis Konstantinos Tasoulas Minister for Health and Social Solidarity In office 10 March 2004 – 14 February 2006 Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis Preceded by Costas Stefanis Succeeded by Dimitris Avramopoulos
Personal details
Born	(1946-04-01) 1 April 1946 Andros, Greece
Political party	New Democracy
Other political affiliations	Political Spring (1993–2000)
Alma mater	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Profession	Politician Doctor

Nikitas M. Kaklamanis (Greek: Νικήτας Κακλαμάνης; born 1 April 1946 in Andros) is a Greek politician who served as mayor of Athens from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Minister for Health and Social Solidarity from 2004 to 2006. In the Greek local elections of 2010 he lost the position of mayor after being defeated by Giorgos Kaminis. Since January 2025 he serves as the 14th Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament after being Deputy Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament from 2015 until 2023.

Medical career

Kaklamanis was born in Andros. Kaklamanis studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Athens. His medical training was spent in Ioannina. From 1975 to 1981, he worked at the Aretaieio Hospital in Athens, first as an assistant and then as a registrar. He qualified as a radiation oncologist, his second specialisation, in 1980. He was awarded his doctorate in 1981. He served as secretary-general to the Panhellenic Medical Association from 1984 to 1989 and was elected on the ND ticket. In 1989, he was elected Assistant Professor of Radiotherapy–Oncology at the University of Athens.

In popular culture

Some of his rivals or haters nicknamed him "Omer Prioni" (a pun of Omer Vrioni and the word prioni meaning "saw" in Greek) or "Nikitaras the Wood-eater" (a pun of the Greek 1821 Revolution hero Nikitaras the "Turk-eater") on account of him having cut a lot of trees.

External links

• City Mayors Profile of Nikitas Kaklamanis
• Personal profile of Nikitas Kaklamanis in the European Parliament's database of members
• Terms of office of Nikitas Kaklamanis at the Hellenic Parliament (in English)

This page incorporates information from the Hellenic Parliament website