The Cabinet of Antonis Samaras succeeded the Caretaker Cabinet of Panayiotis Pikrammenos after the repeated legislative elections in May and June 2012.
The cabinet The cabinet was sworn in on Thursday, 21 June 2012.The new cabinet , Athens News, 21 June 2012. The former ministries of Shipping, Tourism and Macedonia and Thrace were re-established. 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. 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.
DIMAR left the coalition on 21 June 2013 in protest at the closure of the nation's public broadcaster ERT, leaving Antonis Samaras with a slim majority of 153 ND and PASOK MPs combined. The two remaining parties proceeded to negotiate a cabinet reshuffle that resulted in a significantly expanded role for PASOK in the new coalition government. A further reshuffle followed the 2014 European Parliament election.
OfficeOfficeholderPartyDates 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 New Democracy 25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014 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 New Democracy 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 Post abolished 25 June 2013 Minister for Education and Religious Affairs 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 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 PASOK 21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014 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 PASOK 25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015 Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights Antonios Roupakiotis Independent 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 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 New Democracy 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 Miltiadis Varvitsiotis New Democracy 25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015 Minister for Macedonia and Thrace New Democracy 21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014 Georgios Orfanos New Democracy 10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015 Minister of State New Democracy 21 June 2012 – 27 January 2015 Deputy Minister to the Prime Ministerand government spokesperson New Democracy 21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014 Sofia Voultepsi New Democracy 10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
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