Cabinet of Konstantinos Simitis III

Konstantinos Simitis (2003)

The Konstantinos Simitis III cabinet was formed on April 13, 2000 in Greece by Konstantinos Simitis and replaced the second Simitis cabinet . The cabinet existed until March 10, 2004, when it was replaced by the Kostas Karamanlis I cabinet .

In the previous parliamentary election of April 8, 2000 , the ruling Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima (PASOK) recorded a narrow gain of 2.3 percentage points compared to the parliamentary election of September 22, 1996 and got 43.79 percent (1996: 41.49 percent). Due to the current proportional representation with 158 seats (1996: 162 seats) it still received an absolute majority. However, the opposition Nea Dimokratia (ND), led by Kostas Karamanlis , also gained 4.62 percentage points and thus achieved 42.74 (1996: 38.12 percent) and 125 seats (1996: 108 seats) in parliament .

minister

Ministerial office	Term of office	minister	Life dates
Prime Minister (President of the Council of Ministers)	April 13, 2000	Konstantinos Simitis	* 1936
Foreign	April 13, 2000 February 13, 2004	Georgios Papandreou Tasos Giannitsis	* 1952 * 1944
National Defense	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Akis Tsochatzopoulos Yiannos Papantoniou	* 1939 * 1949
Home affairs, public administration and decentralization	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001 February 13, 2004	Vasso Papandreou Kostas Skandalidis Nikos Alivizatos	* 1944 * 1953 * 1949
Finances	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Yiannos Papantoniou Nikos Christodoulakis	* 1949 * 1952
Judiciary	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Michalis Stathopoulos Philippos Petsalnikos	* 1938 * 1950
economy	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Yiannos Papantoniou Nikos Christodoulakis	* 1949 * 1952
Environment, spatial planning and public works	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Konstantinos Laliotis Vasiliki Papandreou	* 1951 * 1944
National Education and Religious Affairs	April 13, 2000	Petros Efthymiou	* 1950
Transport and communication	April 13, 2000	Christos Verelis	* 1950
Work and social security	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Tasos Giannitsis Dimitrios Reppas	* 1944 * 1952
Health and welfare	April 13, 2000 June 13, 2002	Alexandros Papadopoulos Konstantinos Stephanis	* 1949 * 1928 † 2016
Agriculture	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Georgios anomeritis Georgios Drys	* 1945 * 1944
Public order	April 13, 2000 July 7, 2003	Michail Chrysochoidis Georgios Floridis	* 1955 * 1956
Culture	April 13, 2000 November 20, 2000	Theodoros Pangalos Evangelos Venizelos	* 1938 * 1957
development	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001	Nikolaos Christodoulakis Akis Tsochatzopoulos	* 1952 * 1939
Merchant marine	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001 July 7, 2003	Christos Papoutsis Georgios Anomeritis Georgios Paschalidis	* 1953 * 1945 * 1951
Press and mass media	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001 February 13, 2004	Dimitrios Reppas Christos Protopapas Georgios Romaios	* 1952 * 1956 * 1934
Macedonia and Thrace	April 13, 2000 July 7, 2003	Georgios Paschalidis Charis Kastanidis	* 1951 * 1956
Aegean	April 13, 2000	Nikolaos Sifounakis	* 1949
Minister of State without portfolio	April 13, 2000 October 24, 2001 July 7, 2003	Miltiadis Papaioannou Stephanos Manikas Alexandros Akrivakis	* 1946 * 1952 * 1944

Web links

• Cabinet Konstantinos Simitis III ( memento from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Greek government
• Greece: Ministries (rulers.org)

Remarks

1. ↑ On March 21, 2002, the previously independent ministries for economy and finance were merged into one ministry for economy and finance
2. ↑ On March 21, 2002, the previously independent ministries for economy and finance were merged into one ministry for economy and finance