Greece’s center-right government has named the country’s first openly gay minister in a cabinet reshuffle
ATHENS, Greece – The center-right government in Greece on Monday appointed the country’s first openly gay minister in a cabinet reshuffle. Nicholas Yatromanolakis, 44, was named as the new Deputy Minister of Culture after being promoted from the position of General Secretary in the Ministry. The government retained its health and finance ministers and most other key positions in the realignment. Greece is dizzy from the effects of the pandemic that spiked deaths in the fall and is expected to cause a 10.5% contraction in gross domestic product by 2020. Despite the difficulties, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis left most of the key cabinet positions unchanged. , retaining Christos Staikouras as Finance Minister and Vasilis Kilikias as Health Minister. The vaccinations were expanded from nine to 50 hospitals on Monday.