Savvas Tsitouridis

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Savvas Tsitouridis (born February 3, 1954) is a Greek politician and member of the New Democracy and currently Minister for Employment and Social Protection.

Born in Kilkis, he studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, France and Britain.

Tsitouridis worked for the European Commission in Brussels from 1981 to 1990 and 1995 to 1996 on matters pertaining to agriculture, competition, state subsidies and the internal market.

He has been a member of the New Democracy Central Committee since April 1994. He was elected MP in the Kilkis constituency in the general elections of 1996 and 2000.

In June 2000, he became shadow minister for the environment, town planning and public works.

In March 2004 he was appointed Minister for Rural Development and Food but resigned in September of the same year after it became public that he had tried to influence his son's transfer into a corresponding University department of a different city.

He returned to the cabinet on February 15, 2006 as Minister for Employment and Social Protection.

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Preceded by:
'		 Minister for Rural Development and Food
2004–		 Succeeded by:
Evangelos Basiakos
Preceded by:
Panos Panagiotopoulos		 Minister for Employment and Social Protection
2006–		 Succeeded by:
Incumbent
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