Stelios Papathemelis
Στέλιος Παπαθεμελής
Stelios Papathemelis
Deputy Education Minister of Greece
In office 1982–1985
Minister for Macedonia and Thrace of Greece
In office 1987–1989
Minister for Public Order of Greece
In office 1993–1995
Personal details
Born	January 1938 (age 87) Thessaloniki, Greece
Political party	EK-ND, EDIK, PASOK, New Democracy, Democratic Revival, Panhellenic Macedonian Front
Alma mater	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Stelios Papathemelis (Greek:Στέλιος Παπαθεμελής; born January 1938) is aGreek politician and lawyer. He studied law at theAristotle University of Thessaloniki.

He was elected for the first timeMP withEK-ND inthe elections of 1974. He was re-elected withEDIK in 1977. Afterwards, he joinedPASOK and was appointed Deputy Education Minister in 1982-1985,Minister for Macedonia and Thrace in 1987-1989 andMinister for Public Order in 1993-1995. During his term as Minister of Public Order, he faced strong opposition, mainly by the owners of the night clubs and bars, for a 2am curfew he imposed on clubs and bars. His decisions were seen as trying to control nightlife and as being contrary to the Greek spirit of leisure.

He later left PASOK and was elected as an independent MP on theNew Democracy list forThessaloniki inthe 2004 elections.

Though he started his political career in a liberal party and was later in a socialdemocratic one, he is now considered a left-wing nationalist and "traditional centrist patriot".^[1] He has a privileged relationship with theChurch of Greece.^[2]

In March, 2007 he announced the foundation of a new political party,Democratic Revival. In thegeneral elections of September 2007, Democratic Revival performed dismally, tallying 0.8% of the national vote and failed to get parliamentary representation. In May 2009 he formed thePanhellenic Macedonian Front coalition with professorKostas Zouraris to run in the June 2009European Parliamentary elections.^[3] The party includedGreek Macedonian diaspora organisations.

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