spyridon-adonis georgiadis (greek: σπυρίδων-άδωνις γεωργιάδης; born 6 november 1972), better known as adonis georgiadis, is a greek right-wing populist politician, telemarketer and publisher.a former member of the popular orthodox rally, he currently is the vice-president of new democracy who served as minister for development and investment in the cabinet of kyriakos mitsotakis from 2019 to 2023.he previously served as deputy minister for development, competitiveness and shipping in the cabinet of lucas papademos from 2011 to 2012, and minister for health in the cabinet of antonis samaras from 2013 to 2014.he graduated with a bachelor of arts in history from the department of history and archaeology of the school of philosophy of the university of athens.from december 2003 until august 2007 he served as the spokesman for the popular orthodox rally.georgiadis ran for the office of the prefect of athens in the 2006 elections  and on september 16, 2007, was elected a member of the greek parliament.he was re-elected on october 4, 2009, for athens β.in november 2010 he was laos' candidate peripheral governor for attica at the municipal & prefectural elections.on 11 november 2011, georgiadis was appointed deputy minister for development, competitiveness and shipping in the coalition government of lucas papademos.he resigned on february 11, 2012.on february 13, he was crossed out of the parliamentary team of laos due to voting in favor of the second economic adjustment programme for greece, against the party line.on 17 february 2012 georgiadis joined new democracy, having first given up his parliamentary seat to laos.he has since been elected a member of parliament, representing athens b, in the may 2012, june 2012 , january 2015 (13.796 votes) and july 2019 (29.461 votes) elections.he will run again for office in the may 2023 elections.he was appointed minister for health from june 2013 and served until june 2014.in september 2014 georgiadis was appointed parliamentary spokesman for new democracy.in the elections of january 2015 he was elected in the 2nd district of athens with 70.853 votes and he was reelected in the september elections.he was one of the four candidates in the 2015–16 new democracy leadership election.he campaigned for liberal reforms, tax cuts and cut of public spending and for an ideological battle with the left, which he considers that it has an ideological hegemony.in the first round he got 11.40% (46,065 votes) and finished fourth out of four.in the second round he supported kyriakos mitsotakis, who won the elections and became new president of new democracy.on 18 january, he was appointed as one of the two vice-presidents of the party.on his daily programme ellinon egersis (greek uprising; greek: ελλήνων έγερσις) on teleasty, along with his brother leonidas he commented on current affairs, and advertised books of mainly historical and philological interest, both from his family publishing house ekdoseis georgiadi and other greek publishers.he also publishes the magazine elliniki agogi (greek upbringing; greek: ελληνική αγωγή), which covers issues of national and historical interest.an organization under the same name of elliniki agogi runs lessons of the ancient greek language.in a 2015 tv show discussing his book, he claimed that 'homosexuality did not exist in ancient greece'.he had also previously written a guide to ancient greek coins.he has also written the historical novel theodora phranza: or, the fall of constantinople.greek journalist tasos kostopoulos has claimed that this book is the product of plagiarism of a 19th-century english book by john mason neale.moreover, according to kostopoulos, georgiadis  added some characters to the english original, including bartholomew, a jewish advisor to the sultan mehmet.
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on february 13, he was crossed out of the parliamentary team of laos due to voting in favor of the second economic adjustment programme for greece, against the party line.on 17 february 2012 georgiadis joined new democracy, having first given up his parliamentary seat to laos.in september 2014 georgiadis was appointed parliamentary spokesman for new democracy.