Greece’s center-right government openly names gay prime minister in cabinet reshuffle
ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s center-right government on Monday named the country’s gay open prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle. Nicholas Yatromanolakis, 44, has been named the new deputy minister of culture after being promoted to secretary general at the ministry. The government has retained its health and finance ministers and most of the other key positions in the reshuffle. Greece is moving away from the impact of the pandemic that led to an increase in the number of deaths in the autumn and is expected to have caused a 10.5% contraction in its gross domestic product in 2020. Despite the difficulties, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has left unchanged most key cabinet functions. , keeping Christos Staikouras as Minister of Finance and Vasilis Kilikias as Minister of Health. Vaccinations were expanded Monday from nine to 50 hospitals nationwide.