Anastasios Nerantzis

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Anastasios Nerantzis
Αναστάσιος Νεράντζης
Secretary General of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy
In office
2010–2021
3rd Deputy Speaker
of the Hellenic Parliament
In office
2007–2009
Secretary General of the Hellenic Parliament
In office
1978–1981
Personal details
Born(1944-10-03)3 October 1944
Nikaia, Attica, Greece
Died11 July 2021(2021-07-11) (aged 76)
Political partyNew Democracy
Alma materNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Websitewww.nerantzis.gr

Anastasios (Tasos) Nerantzis (Greek: Αναστάσιος (Τάσος) Νεράντζης; 3 October 1944 – 11 July 2021) was a Greek attorney and politician.

A co-founder of the New Democracy party, he was a long-standing member of the Hellenic Parliament, governor of Samos and Lesbos prefectures, and held various posts as deputy minister in the first Karamanlis government (2004–07). Having dropped out of the Hellenic Parliament in 2014, he remained Secretary-General of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.

Biography

Born and raised in

Student Union of Nikaia and Korydallos.[1]

Following the 1974 collapse of the

Greek military junta Nerantzis became a founding member of New Democracy and with the first election was rightaway elected a member of the Hellenic Parliament representing the suburban Piraeus B constituency. From 1978 until 1981, he would serve as the parliament's Secretary-General, and in 1994, he was elected a member of New Democracy's Central and Executive Committees. He didn't return to parliament before November 1989, but would remain a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for seven consecutive terms, from 1993 until 2014.[2]

Under prime minister

Turkey–Greece gas pipeline completed in 2007.[3] In the 2007–09 period, he was the 3rd Deputy Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament representing his party's parliamentary group.[4]

A long-standing delegate of the Hellenic Parliament to the

Nagorno-Karabakh region, the government of Azerbaijan declared him a persona non grata.[6]

Positions and controversy

Compulsory voting

In the 2000–2004 term, Nerantzis was a member of the Committee for the Revision of the Constitution. In the debate on abolishing administrative sanctions to enforce compulsory voting, he was cited to be the only member objecting to the abolition on the grounds that this would render compulsory voting, which he strongly defended, a pure "academicism, a light that does not shine, a fire that gives no heat."[7]

Nikoloudis Report

When in his last parliamentary term (2012–14), Nerantzis was elected president of the parliament's

Zoi Konstantopoulou's public attacks finally forced him to reveal the list.[10]

Homophobia controversy

In a parliamentary debate in September 2014, Nerantzis railed against the adoption of an anti-discrimination bill aimed at protective rights for same-sex couples. "Since the third century marriage has been defined only between man and woman. As such, there is no place for civil unions in Greece." he said, comparing homosexuality with

paedophilia and brothels "allowing bestiality".[11]

References

  1. ^ "Nerantzis, Anastasios". Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Anastasios Nerantzis". Hellenic Parliament. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Greek-Turkish offshore natural gas pipeline". DESFA. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Former Deputy Speakers". Hellenic Parliament. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Resolution – 19 Annual General Assembly in Prague, 2012". Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy. June 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Arzuolunmaz Şəxslərin Siyahısı" [List of Undesirable People] (PDF) (in Azerbaijani). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Azerbaijan). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
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  8. ^ Σφοδρή επίθεση ΣΥΡΙΖΑ στον πρόεδρο της Επιτροπής Θεσμών και Διαφάνειας [Syriza attacks Chair of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency]. iEfimerida (in Greek). 17 December 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  9. ^ Τ.Νεράντζης: Δεν συγκαταλέγονται βουλευτές στην «έκθεση Νικολούδη» [T.Nerantzis: "Nikoloudis Report" includes no MPs]. To Vima (in Greek). 20 February 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  10. ^ Στη δημοσιότητα η λίστα Νικολούδη – Περιλαμβάνει 81 αιρετούς της Αυτοδιοίκησης [Nikoloudis List revealed – contains 81 local government officials]. Aftodioikisi (in Greek). 29 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  11. ^ Smith, Helena (7 September 2014). "Greek laws 'fall short' as racist and homophobic violence surges". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

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