Thanasis Davakis assumes the duties of Deputy Minister of Defense. The Laconia MP was born in Athens on March 18, 1962 and comes from the Kechrias of the Municipality of East Mani.

He was elected MP with the New Democracy Party in 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2019. He was responsible for the ideological DAP-NDFK at the Democritus University of Thrace and after the ND (ND youth), while in 1988. In addition, since 1997 it has been the ND political committee. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Vocational Education and Employment Organization (OGEEKA-DIMITRA), subordinate to the Ministry of Rural Development, and then took over as responsible for the New Democracy Culture. He was Deputy Minister of National Defense (June) from June 2013 to June 2014 in the Samaritan government. Since 2016 he has been in charge of the Party National Defense Division, and since July 17, 2019, he is chairman of the Special Standing Committee on Equipment Programs and Contracts of the Hellenic Parliament (Parliamentary Season).

She is married and has a daughter.