The Delivery Ceremony of the Deputy Ministers at the Ministry of Digital Government was completed following the resignation of Christos Boukouros on the OPECEPE case. The minister thanked the outgoing Deputy Minister for his work and welcomed the new Deputy Minister Christos Dermentzoglou to the ministry.

Assuming his new duties, Mr Dermentzoglou also thanked the outgoing deputy minister and said that “with Minister Papastergiou, they have a common goal of strengthening the state’s digital services to the citizen”.

Referring to his new portfolio, he underlined that the National Land Registry has passed in a new era, that it will guarantee the security of law, stability, investment and justice for all, and that “transition to a comprehensive digital and operating cadastre is not just a technical target. It is, as our prime minister has said, but also our Minister, a national priority. “

“As a ministry, I think we will continue to strengthen the state with modern digital tools, and to achieve this is the contribution of the workers of the body. So with respect to both their work and experience, I look forward to close and meaningful cooperation, to ensure the speed, correctness and reliability of the Land Registry throughout the country. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we also have many opportunities and I think that in actions and not words we will make the digital state more functional, “the new Deputy Minister of Digital Governance concluded.

“I had first denounced the illegal subsidies”

Delivering the baton, Mr Boukoros reiterated that he was absolutely clear his conscience and that “the one phone call I accept did not harm a single euro OPEKEPE. On the contrary, I am the one who first in the country, on July 6, 2021, in my urgent letter to the then responsible Minister of Rural Development, I had complained to illegal subsidies from public land. This complaint was then held by many publications. “

He added that during those 100 days that remained in the ministry there were significant steps, such as on the issues of the Land Registry, namely the completion of the cadastralization, the completion of the digitization of the archives of the old mortgages and the increase in productivity.

“As far as digitization is concerned, a big project that has been starting for several years, is going a very good pace and continued to move on, in the timetables,” Mr Boukoros stressed, adding that the cadastralization within three months of 55% of 55%. He also referred to the issuance of the Land Registry Certificates, where, he said, productivity increased by 128%these three months.