Following the 4 October 2009 general elections in Greece, George Papandreou, the leader of PASOK, formed a government, which was sworn in on 7 October. A major cabinet reshuffle was made in September 2010. The cabinet was succeeded by the Lucas Papademos's Coalition Cabinet.
The 2009 cabinet
The cabinet had 36 members, 14 ministers and 22 deputy ministers, a reduction in the size of government as promised by the PA.SO.K. leader during his campaign for the country’s parliamentary elections. Twenty-four of the new members of the government had no previous ministerial experience. Nine of the members were women, a very large proportion by Greek standards, while five of them were named to head ministries among the 14 portfolios. Papandreou appointed himself foreign minister, a portfolio he held in a previous Pasok government.
Changes in government structure The new cabinet featured less ministries than usual in the past (four less than the previous cabinet), and significant changes in several of them: the post of a Vice-President of the Government has been re-introduced and given a coordinating role over the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) and the committee on Economic and Social Policy. the united Ministry for Economy and Finance has been split up again, with the Ministry for Economy also taking over the role of the Ministry for Development and most functions of the Ministry for Mercantile Marine. the regional ministries, namely the Ministry for Macedonia–Thrace and the Ministry for the Aegean and Island Policy, were abolished. Instead, a Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Finance, Competitiveness and Mercantile Marine resided in Macedonia. the Ministry for Transport and Communications was merged with the Public Works sector of the Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works, while a dedicated Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change is created. the General Secretariats of Public Order (supervising the Hellenic Police and Hellenic Fire Service) and of Civil Defence of the Ministry for the Interior, together with the Hellenic Coast Guard (previously under the purview of the Ministry for Mercantile Marine) are joined into the new Ministry for the Protection of the Citizen. In essence, it forms a revival, in a revised form, of the old Ministry for Public Order. the ministries of Culture and Tourism were merged.
Ministers OfficeIncumbentPartyDatesPrime MinisterGeorge PapandreouPanhellenic Socialist Movement6 October 2009Deputy Prime MinisterTheodoros PangalosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for the Interior, Decentralization and Electronic GovernanceGiannis RagousisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for FinanceGiorgos PapakonstantinouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Foreign AffairsGeorge PapandreouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for National DefenceEvangelos VenizelosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and ShippingLouka KatseliPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate ChangeTina BirbiliPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious AffairsAnna DiamantopoulouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and NetworksDimitris ReppasPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Labour and Social SecurityAndreas LoverdosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Health and Social SolidarityMariliza XenogiannakopoulouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Rural Development and FoodKaterina BatzeliPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human RightsHaris KastanidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Citizen ProtectionMichalis ChrisochoidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Culture and TourismPavlos GeroulanosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister of State to the Prime MinisterHaris PamboukisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Alternate Minister for Foreign AffairsDimitris DroutsasPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Alternate Minister for National DefencePanos BeglitisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009
The 2010 cabinet Prime Minister Papandreou's second cabinet was sworn in on 7 September 2010, after a major cabinet reshuffle with 48 cabinet members comprising the new government, of which seven members were alternate ministers – up from two in the previous Cabinet – and 24 deputy ministers. The majority of Cabinet members are M.P.s from the ruling PA.SO.K. party. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries - essentially the re-established Merchant Marine ministry - was established.
Ministers OfficeIncumbentPartyDatesPrime MinisterGeorge PapandreouPanhellenic Socialist Movement6 October 2009Deputy Prime Minister of GreeceTheodoros PangalosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for the Interior, Decentralization and Electronic GovernanceGiannis RagousisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for FinanceGiorgos PapakonstantinouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Foreign AffairsDimitris DroutsasPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for National DefenceEvangelos VenizelosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Regional Development and CompetitivenessMichalis ChrisochoidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Maritime Affairs, Islands and FisheriesGiannis DiamantidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate ChangeTina BirbiliPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious AffairsAnna DiamantopoulouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and NetworksDimitris ReppasPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Labour and Social SecurityLouka KatseliPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Health and Social SolidarityAndreas LoverdosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Rural Development and FoodKostas SkandalidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human RightsHaris KastanidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Citizen ProtectionChristos PapoutsisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Culture and TourismPavlos GeroulanosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister of State to the Prime MinisterHaris PamboukisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and Government SpokesmanGeorge PetalotisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs with responsibility for the European UnionMariliza XenogiannakopoulouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for National DefencePanagiotis BeglitisPanhellenic Socialist Movement14 October 2009Alternate Minister for Regional Development and CompetitivenessSokratis XynidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate ChangeNikolaos SifounakisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious AffairsFofi GennimataPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for Labour and Social SecurityGiorgos KoutroumanisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for Labour and Social Security responsible for the MediasTilemachos ChytirisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010
The 2011 cabinet
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou announced a Cabinet reshuffle on 15 June 2011 amidst the worsening Greek debt crisis and mounting protests. The new cabinet was announced and sworn in on 17 June. It features 41 members, seven down from the 2010 cabinet, and a new ministry, that of Administrative Reform, split off from the Interior Ministry. The Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries, established in 2010, was dissolved and merged with the Ministry for Regional Development and Competitiveness.
The new cabinet received a vote of confidence on 21 June 2011, with 155 (51.7%) votes in favour (all from PA.SO.K. members), 143 (47.7%) against, and two (0.7%) abstentions.
Ministers OfficeIncumbentPartyDatesPrime MinisterGeorge PapandreouPanhellenic Socialist Movement6 October 2009Deputy Prime MinisterTheodoros PangalosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for FinanceEvangelos VenizelosPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for the InteriorHaris KastanidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for Administrative Reform and e-GovernanceDimitris ReppasPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for Foreign AffairsStavros LambrinidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for National DefencePanos BeglitisPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for Development, Competitiveness and ShippingMichalis ChrisochoidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate ChangeGiorgos PapakonstantinouPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious AffairsAnna DiamantopoulouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and NetworksGiannis RagousisPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for Labour and Social SecurityGiorgos KoutroumanisPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for Health and Social SolidarityAndreas LoverdosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Rural Development and FoodKostas SkandalidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human RightsMiltiadis PapaioannouPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Minister for Citizen ProtectionChristos PapoutsisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Minister for Culture and TourismPavlos GeroulanosPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 October 2009Minister of State and Government SpokesmanPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Alternate Minister of FinanceFilippos SachinidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Alternate Minister of FinancePanhellenic Socialist Movement17 June 2011Alternate Minister for Foreign AffairsMariliza XenogiannakopoulouPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for Development, Competitiveness and ShippingSokratis XynidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for Development, Competitiveness and ShippingHaris PamboukisPanhellenic Socialist Movement27 June 2011Alternate Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate ChangeNikolaos SifounakisPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010Alternate Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious AffairsFofi GennimataPanhellenic Socialist Movement7 September 2010
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou also announced the formation of a Government Committee (Κυβερνητική Επιτροπή) composed of leading ministers:
Dimitris Reppas Haris Kastanidis Evangelos Venizelos Michalis Chrysohoidis Giorgos Papakonstantinou Anna Diamantopoulou Giannis Ragousis Andreas Loverdos Kostas Skandalidis Christos Papoutsis
See also Cabinet of Greece List of cabinets of Greece
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