Sadness has caused the sudden death of Member and secretary of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group, Apostolou Vesiropoulosat the age of 59, while on a beach in Halkidiki.
The 59 -year -old politician initially felt unwell and then suffered a heart attack While in the Coast of Kalogria, in Sithonia Halkidiki.
Despite the enormous effort they made, initially an off -service rescuer of EKAB and a doctor in the area and then the EKAB ambulance crew, Apostolos Vesisiropoulos did not come back.
Characteristic of the effort is that, According to the Ministry of Health’s announcement for Apostle Vesisropoulosa doctor and rescuers did a 59 -year -old Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for an hour.
The battle for defibrillators
As she recalled by posting her The Non -Government Group ‘Kids Save Lives – Children Save Lives’Apostolos Vesyropoulos had intervened decisively to put about 2,000 defibrillators in schools and communities. According to the NGO, as Deputy Minister of Finance, in 2021, Apostolos Vesiropoulos He had accepted a request to reduce VAT on the market for these devices by recommending to former Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, resulting in the establishment of VAT reduction defibrillator at 6%.
And as the NGO adds, today “four years later, life is unfair to this man”, as he “helped with his recommendation about about 2,000 defibrillators in schools and communities, he had to wait for the ambulance to bring defibrillator, which in the province means delayed and delayed.”
On Saturday his funeral
OR funeral The Secretary of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group Apostolos Vesiropoulos will take place on Saturday (23/8) in Alexandria Imathia from the Metropolitan Church of the Assumption. The body of the MP and former minister will be in church from 10:00.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will also attend the funeral.
Who was Apostolos Vesyropoulos
Apostolos F. Vesyropoulos was a Member of Parliament and from April 4, 2025, he was Secretary General of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group. From August 29, 2023 to March 2025, he was chairman of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs of the House. From July 2019 to June 2023 he was Deputy Minister of Finance, responsible for tax policy and public property in the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
He was born in Veria on May 29, 1966 and came from Alexandria Imathia. He was married to Professor Katerina Katsavou and the father of two children.
He was the Secretary General of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group and Deputy Minister of Finance, responsible for tax policy and public property
- In particular, to the Deputy Minister of Finance Apostolos Vesyropoulos, the following responsibilities were entrusted:
- (a) of the General Secretariat for Tax Policy and Public Property,
- (b) the supervision of the following legal entities:
- (i) of the Olympia and Bequest Committee,
- ii) of the Barbacial Foundation,
- (iii) of the Accounting Standardization and Audit Committee (ELTE).
He was a PhD candidate at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, in the Department of Public Law and Political Science (Tax Law). He owns two postgraduate degrees:
– In the Strategic Administrative Accounting and Financial Administration of the Department of Accounting and Finance of the University of Macedonia
– In Public Law and Political Science of the Department of Law of the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace (Tax Law)
- He was an economist and a graduate:
- – of the Department of Business and Organizations of the Hellenic Open University and
- – The Department of Accounting and Finance of the School of Management and Economics of ATEI Thessaly
- He was a member of the New Democracy in the Imathia constituency and in particular in the national elections:
- a) of May 21, 2023 was re -elected first in crosses of preference,
- (b) of July 7, 2019 was re -elected first to crosses of preference,
- c) January 2015 was first elected to the crosses of preference, while head of the ballot paper in the September 2015 elections,
- d) June 2012 was elected for the first time a member of the Imathia constituency.
Since 2015 he was responsible for the New Democracy Tax Policy Division, and in 2016 he was appointed Department of Finance, with the responsibility of tax policy.
In the municipal elections:
a) In 2010 he was elected municipal councilor in the Municipality of Veria,
(b) 2006 was elected Prefectural Advisor of the Prefecture of Imathia.
During the period 2007-2008 he served as Vice-Mayor in the Prefecture of Imathia, with responsibilities in the Departments of Rural Development, Finance, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
In the House of Greeks:
(a) A Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, in which he served as President and Secretary,
(b) Continuous Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee
(c) Standing Committee of Public Administration, Public Order and Justice
(d) House Regulation Committee
e) DEKO Commission
(f) Committee of Report and General Balance Sheet of the State and control of the implementation of the state budget, which had also served as Secretary,
(g) Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, entitled “Debt and Its It” and
h) Special Standing Research and Technology Committee
Prior to engaging in politics, he worked for several years in the private sector and was subsequently appointed to the Treasury with a written ASEP competition.