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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
Succeeded by	Giorgos Kaminis
Member of theHellenic 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 theHellenic 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 (age 79) 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 inAndros) is aGreek politician who served asmayor of Athens from 2007 to 2010. He previously served asMinister for Health and Social Solidarity from 2004 to 2006. In theGreek local elections of 2010 he lost the position ofmayor after being defeated byGiorgos Kaminis. Since January 2025 he serves as the 14thSpeaker of the Hellenic Parliament after being Deputy Speaker of theHellenic Parliament from 2015 until 2023.^[1][2]

Kaklamanis was born inAndros. Kaklamanis studiedmedicine at the Medical School of theUniversity of Athens. His medical training was spent inIoannina. From 1975 to 1981, he worked at the Aretaieio Hospital in Athens, first as an assistant and then as a registrar. He qualified as aradiation oncologist, his second specialisation, in 1980. He was awarded his doctorate in 1981. He served as secretary-general to thePanhellenic 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.

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

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• Personal profile of Nikitas Kaklamanis in theEuropean Parliament's database of members
• Terms of office ofNikitas Kaklamanis at theHellenic Parliament(in English)

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