Pavlos Polakis

Pavlos Polakis (; born 11 May 1965) is a Greek politician and physician (specializing in surgery). He currently serves in the Hellenic Parliament as an MP for Chania, with the SYRIZA party. He commenced his political career at the local government level, serving as Mayor of Sfakia from 2011 to 2015. He joined the central political arena as a member of parliament for the prefecture of Chania in 2015. He served as Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction. (July–August 2015) in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras and Alternate Minister of Health (September 2015–July 2019) in the Second Cabinet. He has been an elected MP for Chania with SYRIZA since 2015.

Polakis is a highly controversial figure who has frequently been in the Greek media due to his use of defamatory references to his political opponents. However, he has a significant and dynamic circle of supporters, namely SYRIZA voters, who applaud the way he intervenes in political life.
The neologism ''Polakism'' has been created from his way of intervening in the political life of the country. According to Georgios Babiniotis' "Dictionary of Modern Greek Language", ''Polakism'' is ''verbal bashing''. Provided by Wikipedia