Alternate Minister for Social Solidarity resigns over revelations she took 23,000 euros in rent subsidies

Alternate Minister for Social Solidarity Rania Antonopoulou resigned on Monday afternoon following revelations that she received 23,000 euros in state rent subsidies for an apartment in the chic Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras thanked Antonopoulou for "three years of significant contribution" to the government. Sources close to the premier said the subsidy for cabinet members who are not MPs would be scrapped. 

The reports emerged in an article in Eleftheros Typos which revealed that Antonopoulou was receiving 1,000 euros per month from the state as a rent subsidy for her apartment in Kolonaki.

Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos told Real FM that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had spoken to Antonopoulou, telling her it was "not right" that she had exploited the subsidy in question and that she had been asked to make a...