Greece’s center-right government has appointed the country’s openly gay prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle
ATHENS, Greece – The center-right government in Greece on Monday appointed the country’s openly gay prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle. Nicholas Yatromanolakis, 44, was appointed new deputy minister of culture after being promoted to the post of secretary general of the ministry. The government retained its health and finance ministers and most other key positions in the reshuffle. Greece is shrinking from the impact of the pandemic that caused an increase in deaths in the autumn and is expected to have caused a 10.5% contraction in its gross domestic product by 2020. Despite the difficulties, the prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis left most of the key cabinet positions unchanged. , keeping Christos Staikouras as Minister of Finance and Vasilis Kilikias as Minister of Health. Vaccines were expanded again to 50 hospitals Monday across the country.