Cabinet of Antonis Samaras

The Cabinet of Antonis Samaras succeeded the Caretaker Cabinet of Panagiotis Pikrammenos after the repeated legislative elections in May and June 2012. It was sworn in on Thursday, 21 June 2012.^[1] The former ministries of Shipping, Tourism and Macedonia and Thrace were re-established.^[2] The junior coalition partners, PASOK and DIMAR, chose to take a limited role in the cabinet, preferring to be represented by party officials and independent technocrats instead of MPs.^[3] Vassilis Rapanos, the prime minister's first choice for finance minister, fell ill before being sworn in, and tendered his resignation on 25 June. Yannis Stournaras was then chosen as the new finance minister on 26 June, and sworn in on 5 July.^[4][5]

Cabinet of Antonis Samaras
Cabinet of Greece
Prime minister Samaras (r.) and his deputy Venizelos (l.)
Date formed	21 June 2012 (2012-06-21)
Date dissolved	26 January 2015 (2015-01-26)
People and organisations
Head of state	Karolos Papoulias
Head of government	Antonis Samaras
Member parties	New Democracy, PASOK, Democratic Left (DIMAR, until 21 June 2013
Status in legislature	New Democracy led coalition government 179 / 300 (60%) (until 21/06/13) 163 / 300 (54%) (from 21/06/13)
Opposition parties	Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Independent Greeks (ANEL) Golden Dawn Democratic Left (DIMAR) (from 21 June 2013) Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
Opposition leader	Alexis Tsipras
History
Election	June 2012 Greek legislative election
Legislature term	15th (2012–2015)
Predecessor	Pikrammenos Caretaker Cabinet
Successor	Tsipras Cabinet

DIMAR left the coalition on 21 June 2013 in protest at the closure of the nation's public broadcaster ERT, leaving Samaras with a slim majority of 153 ND and PASOK MPs combined.^[6] The two remaining parties proceeded to negotiate a cabinet reshuffle that resulted in a significantly expanded role for PASOK in the new coalition government.^[7][8] A further reshuffle followed the 2014 European Parliament election.^[9]

Office	Officeholder		Party	Dates
Prime Minister	Antonis Samaras		New Democracy	20 June 2012 – 26 January 2015
Deputy Prime Minister	Vacant until 25 June 2013
	Evangelos Venizelos		Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK)	25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Dimitris Avramopoulos		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Evangelos Venizelos		PASOK	25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Finance	Yannis Stournaras		Independent	5 July 2012 – 10 June 2014
	Gikas Hardouvelis		Independent	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for National Defence	Panos Panagiotopoulos		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Dimitris Avramopoulos		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 1 November 2014
	Nikos Dendias		New Democracy	1 November 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for the Interior	Evripidis Stylianidis		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Giannis Michelakis [el]		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014
	Argyris Dinopoulos [el]		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks	Kostis Chatzidakis		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Post abolished 25 June 2013
Minister for Development and Competitiveness	Kostis Chatzidakis		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014
	Nikos Dendias		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 3 November 2014
	Konstantinos Skrekas		New Democracy	3 November 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks	Michalis Chrisochoidis		PASOK	25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport	Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos [el]		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Post abolished 25 June 2013
Minister for Education and Religious Affairs	Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos [el]		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014
	Andreas Loverdos		PASOK	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Culture and Sport	Panos Panagiotopoulos		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014
	Konstantinos Tasoulas		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Administrative Reform and e-Governance	Antonis Manitakis		Independent	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Kyriakos Mitsotakis		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Health	Andreas Lykourentzos [el]		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Adonis Georgiades		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014
	Makis Voridis		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Labour, Social Security and Welfare	Giannis Vroutsis		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Rural Development and Food	Athanasios Tsaftaris [el]		PASOK	21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014
	Giorgos Karasmanis [el]		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change	Evangelos Livieratos		Independent	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Giannis Maniatis [el]		PASOK	25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights	Antonios Roupakiotis		Independent	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Charalampos Athanasiou [el]		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 28 January 2015
Minister for Public Order and Citizen Protection	Nikos Dendias		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014
	Vassilis Kikilias		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Tourism	Olga Kefalogianni		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Shipping and the Aegean	Konstantinos Mousouroulis [el]		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
	Miltiadis Varvitsiotis		New Democracy	25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015
Minister for Macedonia and Thrace	Theodoros Karaoglou [el]		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014
	Georgios Orfanos		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Minister of State	Dimitrios I. Stamatis [el]		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 27 January 2015
Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesperson	Simos Kedikoglou [el]		New Democracy	21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014
	Sofia Voultepsi		New Democracy	10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015

References

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