Academic qualifications spark controversy over official’s appointment

[InTime News]

Newly appointed Deputy Agriculture Minister Makarios Lazaridis faces absorption demands for his resignation implicit his grade from the College of Southeastern Europe. 

PASOK questions however helium served arsenic a ministerial specialist successful 2007, when Law 2190/1994 required a minimum of a university degree, doctorate oregon postgraduate qualification. 

Lazaridis dismissed critics, saying helium submitted each required documents. PASOK called him a “party favor” and demanded his dismissal. 

SYRIZA besides accused him of presenting a non-university certificate arsenic an world degree.