Ministry of the Interior (Greece)

The Ministry of the Interior (Greek: Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών) is a government department of Greece. On 15 September 1995, it was merged with the Ministry of the Prime Minister's Office (Υπουργείο Προεδρίας της Κυβέρνησης) to form the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization (Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, Δημόσιας Διοίκησης και Αποκέντρωσης). On 19 September 2007, it was merged with the Ministry of Public Order and reverted to its original name. The merger was reversed on 7 October 2009, when the Ministry of the Interior, Decentralization and Electronic Governance (Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, Αποκέντρωσης και Ηλεκτρονικής Διακυβέρνησης) was formed. On 27 June 2011, a separate Ministry of Administrative Reform and Electronic Governance was created, and the Ministry of the Interior again reverted to its original name. On 27 January 2015, the two were merged with the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection to form the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reorganization (Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών και Διοικητικής Ανασυγκρότησης). A separate Ministry of Administrative Reorganization was created on 5 November 2016, and the Ministry of the Interior reverted to its original name for the third time in a decade. A separate Ministry of Citizen Protection was also re-established on 29 August 2018. The Ministry of Administrative Reorganization was reabsorbed by the Ministry of the Interior on 9 July 2019.

Ministry of the Interior of the Hellenic Republic
Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών
Coat of arms of the Hellenic Republic, as emblem of the Hellenic Government
Incumbent
Thodoris Livanios [el]
since 14 June 2024
AppointerPrime Minister of Greece
Websitehttps://www.ypes.gr

List of ministers

Interior (1974–1995)

Name Took officeLeft officePartyNotes
Georgios Rallis24 July 197426 July 1974New DemocracyKaramanlis national unity government [el]
Christoforos Stratos26 July 19749 October 1974
Panagiotis Zeppos9 October 197421 November 1974
Konstantinos Stefanopoulos21 November 197410 September 1976
Ippokratis Iordanoglou [el]10 September 197621 October 1977
Georgios Mitsopoulos [el]21 October 197728 November 1977
Christoforos Stratos28 November 197717 September 1981
Georgios D. Daskalakis [el]17 September 198121 October 1981
Georgios Gennimatas21 October 198117 January 1984PASOK
Menios Koutsogiorgas17 January 198422 May 1984
Panagiotis Markopoulos22 May 198421 June 1984
Menios Koutsogiorgas21 June 19849 May 1985
Panagiotis Markopoulos9 May 19855 June 1985
Menios Koutsogiorgas5 June 19855 February 198726 July 1985 – 25 April 1986 also Minister for Public Order
Emmanouil Papastefanakis [el]5 February 198723 September 1987
Akis Tsochatzopoulos23 September 19872 June 198917 March 1989 – 2 June 1989 also Minister for Public Order
Panagiotis Markopoulos2 June 19892 July 1989also Minister for Public Order
Nikos Konstantopoulos2 July 198912 October 1989SynaspismosTzannetakis coalition government [el]
Vassilios Skouris12 October 198923 November 1989IndependentGrivas caretaker government
Theodoros Katrivanos [el]23 November 198911 April 1990Zolotas national unity government
Sotirios Kouvelas11 April 19908 August 1991New Democracy
Nikolaos Kleitos [el]8 August 19913 December 1992
Ioannis Kefalogiannis3 December 199214 September 1993
Ioannis Georgakis [el]14 September 199313 October 1993Independentas interim minister for the 1993 election
Akis Tsochatzopoulos13 October 19938 July 1994PASOK
Kostas Skandalidis8 July 199415 September 1995
  • On 15 September 1995, the Ministry of the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of the Interior were merged to become the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization.

Interior, public administration and decentralization (1995–2007)

Name Took officeLeft officePartyNotes
Akis Tsochatzopoulos15 September 199530 August 1996PASOKThird Papandreou cabinet until 22 January; First Simitis cabinet thereafter
Vassilios Skouris30 August 199625 September 1996Independentas interim minister for the 1996 election
Alekos Papadopoulos25 September 199619 February 1999PASOKSecond Simitis cabinet
Vasso Papandreou19 February 199920 March 2000
Georgios Koumantos [el]20 March 199913 April 2000Independentas interim minister for the 2000 election
Vasso Papandreou13 April 200024 October 2001PASOKThird Cabinet of Costas Simitis
Kostas Skandalidis24 October 200113 February 2004
Nikos Alivizatos13 February 200410 March 2004Independentas interim minister for the 2004 election
Prokopis Pavlopoulos10 March 200424 August 2007New DemocracyFirst Cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis
Spyridon Flogaitis24 August 200719 September 2007Independentas interim minister for the 2007 election
  • On 19 September 2007, the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization was merged with the Ministry of Public Order to form the Ministry of the Interior.

Interior (2007–2009)

Name Took officeLeft officePartyNotes
Prokopis Pavlopoulos19 September 200711 September 2009New DemocracySecond Cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis
Spyridon Flogaitis11 September 20097 October 2009Independentas interim minister for the 2009 election

Interior, decentralization and electronic governance (2009–2011)

Name Took officeLeft officePartyNotes
Giannis Ragousis7 October 200927 June 2011PASOKCabinet of George Papandreou

Interior (2011–2015)

Name Took officeLeft officePartyNotes
Haris Kastanidis27 June 201111 November 2011PASOKPapandreou cabinet
Tasos Giannitsis11 November 201117 May 2012Papademos national unity government
Antonis Manitakis17 May 201221 June 2012IndependentPikrammenos caretaker government
Evripidis Stylianidis21 June 201225 June 2013New DemocracyCabinet of Antonis Samaras
Giannis Michelakis [el]25 June 201310 June 2014
Argyris Dinopoulos [el]10 June 201431 December 2014
Michail Theocharidis [el]31 December 201427 January 2015Independentas interim minister for the January 2015 election

Interior and administrative reorganization (2015–2016)

Name Took officeLeft officePartyNotes
Nikos Voutsis27 January 201528 August 2015SyrizaFirst Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras
Antonis Manitakis28 August 201523 September 2015IndependentThanou caretaker government
Panagiotis Kouroumblis23 September 20155 November 2016SyrizaSecond Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras

Interior (since 2016)

Name Took officeLeft officePartyNotes
Panos Skourletis5 November 201629 August 2018SyrizaSecond Tsipras cabinet
Alexis Haritsis29 August 201813 June 2019
Antonis Roupakiotis13 June 20199 July 2019IndependentAs interim minister for the 2019 election
Takis Theodorikakos [el]9 July 20195 January 2021New DemocracyFirst Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Makis Voridis5 January 202123 April 2023
Calliope Spanou23 April 202327 June 2023IndependentAs interim minister for the 2023 elections
Niki Kerameus27 June 202314 June 2024New DemocracySecond Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Thodoris Livanios [el]14 June 2024Incumbent

See also