The 48-year-old Athens lawyer already has government experience: during coronapandemia, he headed the Ministry of Health from 2021 to 2023. There he had a member of the removal of modern health services as an employee a year earlier. At that time, his appointment as a minister met with the Jewish community of Greece.
In 2009, he represented his father, a recognized and influential National -Socialist Konstantinos Plevris. This is considered the mental pioneer of the now banned party “Golden Dawn” and worked closely with the military junta during the dictatorship. In his anti -Semitic book, published in 2006, Konstantinos Plevris praised the Holocaust and Adolf Hitler. The son of pleuris celebrated his father’s acquittal in the second case as “proof of freedom of expression.”
You cannot see the minister of his relationship. With its opposite black hair and a smooth face, they can hardly be distinguished from many of his colleagues. What remains in his memory is his uniform behavior: he usually speaks quietly in a nasal voice and, nervously intertwined with his hands, requires, for example, shooting people at the border.
The “moderate” face of ultra -right
Plevris, who assured his Jewish criticism in relation to him, his “respect for the victims of the Holocaust,” also loved to shed from “purity of Greek blood”. Such statements pass through his political career. For example, in 2011, at the event of a right extremist magazine, he called for the “final solution to the issue of migration” and ended his speech with a quote by Goebbels. Nevertheless, he said that he said nothing about the ideas of his Nazi father.
Critics: In this alleged distinction between his father, critics see an attempt to make the right extremist positions socially acceptable. In fact, Plevris was systematically created by the founder of Laos Giorgos Karatzaferis after working with his father became publicly too delicate.
The strategy was successful, at least for Atanasyos Plinkis. It has been in the Greek parliament since 2007, between them in Brussels for several weeks. He takes on the Ministry of Migration from Makis Voridis, also a former member of the ultra-Zakon, who resigned on Friday due to the agricultural case of the EU. With the appointment of the Minister of Migration, Plevris now has a common key to applying the misanthropic ideas of the family.
