Nikos Alivizatos
Ν?κο? Αλιβιζ?το?
Minister of the Interior
In office 13 February 2004 ? 10 March 2004
President	Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Prime Minister	Costas Simitis
Preceded by	Kostas Skandalidis
Succeeded by	Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Personal details
Born	1949 Athens , Greece

Nikos Alivizatos ( Greek : Ν?κο? Αλιβιζ?το? ; born 1949) is a Greek jurist, academic and politician. He is currently a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Athens . Alivizatos served as the Minister for the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization for one month in the Third Cabinet of Costas Simitis .

Education [ edit ]

Alivizatos completed an LLB at the University of Athens in 1972. He completed an LLM at the Pantheon-Assas University in 1973 and a doctorate from the same university in 1977. His doctoral supervisor was Georges Vedel . ^[1]

Political career [ edit ]

On 13 February 2004, in the run-up to the 7 March legislative election , he was appointed interim Minister for the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization in the cabinet of Kostas Simitis . Following the electoral victory of the opposition New Democracy party, he resigned along with the rest of the cabinet on 10 March. ^[2]

On 17 February 2015, he was nominated by The River party as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic in the Greek presidential election, 2014?15 . ^[3] He stood against Prokopis Pavlopoulos , a veteran New Democracy politician, nominated by Syriza and supported by ND, Syriza and the latter's coalition partner, ANEL . Alivizatos was also supported by the socialist PASOK . On 18 February, Pavlopoulos was elected as the new President of the Republic with 233 votes in favour, while 30 were for Alivizatos, and 32 MPs (from the Communists and Golden Dawn ) voted "present". ^[4]

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