Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace

Not to be confused with Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace.

The deputy minister for Macedonia and Thrace (Greek: Υφυπουργός Μακεδονίας και Θράκης) is the government minister in charge of Greece's Sub-Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, part of the Ministry of the Interior.

Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace of the Hellenic Republic
Υφυπουργός Μακεδονίας και Θράκης
Coat of arms of the Hellenic Republic
Incumbent Kostas Gkioulekas [el] since 14 June 2024
Appointer	Prime Minister of Greece
Inaugural holder	Maria Kollia-Tsaroucha
Formation	27 January 2015
Website	www.mathra.gr

The department originated in the old Ministry of Northern Greece, which was renamed the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace on 19 August 1988.^[1]

The ministry was abolished on 7 October 2009 and downgraded to a general secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior,^[2][3] but was re-established on 21 June 2012.^[4] On 27 January 2015, it was again demoted to a sub-ministry within the Ministry of the Interior.

List of deputy ministers for Macedonia and Thrace (since 2015)

Name	Took office	Left office	Party
Maria Kollia-Tsaroucha	27 January 2015	27 August 2015	Independent Greeks
Filippos Tsalidis	28 August 2015	21 September 2015	Independent
Maria Kollia-Tsaroucha	23 September 2015	29 August 2018	Independent Greeks
Katerina Notopoulou	29 August 2018	15 February 2019	Syriza
Eleftheria Hatzigeorgiou [el]	15 February 2019	9 July 2019
Theodoros Karaoglou [el]	9 July 2019	5 January 2021	New Democracy
Stavros Kalafatis [el]	5 January 2021	26 May 2023
Stathis Konstantinidis	27 June 2023	14 June 2024
Kostas Gkioulekas [el]	14 June 2024