Giorgos Floridis

Giorgos Floridis (born June 4, 1956) is a Greek lawyer and centrist politician currently serving as Minister of Justice in Kyriakos Mitsotakis' government.

Biography Giorgos Floridis was born on June 4, 1956, in Stavrochori, Kilkis, and studied law, first at the Democritus University of Thrace and later at the Aristotle University. After graduating, he practiced law in both Kilkis and Thessaloniki. In 1994, he ran in the local elections and won the position of Kilkis Prefect, but resigned two years later in 1996 to participate in the national elections with PASOK. he resigned from his parliamentary seat and left the party, returning to his legal practice, primarily in Kilkis and Thessaloniki. In 2015, he rejoined PASOK with a position on the state ballot, but the party’s low electoral results prevented his election. ), appears to have abandoned the center-left, from which he emerged as a proponent of the modernizing Simitis bloc, and aligned himself with the so-called "extreme centrists," a group of PASOK-affiliated figures who sharply criticized SYRIZA while gradually adopting positions closer to those of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. His admiration for Mitsotakis’s politics led him to accept the position of Minister of Justice offered by the Prime Minister in his second government.

According to Floridis, Mitsotakis took the best elements from both the center and the center-left and combined them into a policy that encompasses the patriotic, the progressive, and the popular, while stripping the Left of its monopoly on social sensitivity.