Cabinet Kostas Karamanlis I

Kostas Karamanlis

The Kostas Karamanlis I cabinet was formed on March 10, 2004 in Greece by Kostas Karamanlis and replaced the third Simitis cabinet . The cabinet existed until September 19, 2007, when it was replaced by Karamanli's second cabinet .

In the previous parliamentary election of March 7, 2004 , the Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima (PASOK) , which had ruled up until then, had to record losses of 3.24 percentage points compared to the parliamentary election of April 8, 2000 and only got 40.55 percent of the vote (2000 : 43.79 percent). In doing so, it lost its absolute majority in parliament due to the increased proportional representation and only won 117 of the 300 seats. The previously opposition Nea Dimokratia (ND) led by Kostas Karamanlis was able to increase its voting result by 2.62 percentage points, so that it now received 45.36 percent of the vote (2000: 42.74). At the same time, thanks to the existing electoral system, it won 165 seats (2000: 117 seats) and thus a clear absolute majority.

minister

Ministerial office	Term of office	minister	Life dates
Prime Minister (President of the Council of Ministers)	March 10, 2004	Kostas Karamanlis	* 1956
Foreign	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006	Petros Molyviatis Dora Bakoyannis	* 1928 * 1954
National Defense	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006	Spilios Spiliotopoulos Evangelos Meimarakis	* 1946 * 1953
Home affairs, public administration and decentralization	March 10, 2004 August 24, 2007	Prokopis Pavlopoulos Spyros Flogaitis	* 1950 * 1950
Economy and finance	March 10, 2004	Georgios Alogoskoufis	* 1955
Judiciary	March 10, 2004	Anastasios Papaligouras	* 1948
Environment, spatial planning and public works	March 10, 2004	Georgios Souflias	* 1941
National Education and Religious Affairs	March 10, 2004	Marietta Giannakou	* 1951
Transport and communication	March 10, 2004	Mikhail-Georgios Liapis	* 1951
Employment and social protection	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006 April 30, 2007	Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos Savvas Tsitouridis Vasilios Manginas	* 1957 * 1954 * 1949
Health and social solidarity	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006	Nikitas Kaklamanis Dimitris Avramopoulos	* 1947 * 1953
Agricultural development and nutrition	March 10, 2004 September 23, 2004	Savvas Tsitouridis Evangelos Basiakos	* 1954 * 1954
Public order	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006	Georgios Voulgarakis Vyron Polydoras	* 1959 * 1947
Culture	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006	Kostas Karamanlis Georgios Voulgarakis	* 1956 * 1959
tourism	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006	Dimitris Avramopoulos Fani Palli-Petralia	* 1953 * 1943
development	March 10, 2004	Dimitris Sioufas	* 1944 † 2019
Merchant marine	March 10, 2004	Emmanouil Kefalogiannis	* 1959
Macedonia and Thrace	March 10, 2004 February 15, 2006	Nikolaos Tsiartsionis Georgios Kalantzis	* 1950 * 1954
Aegean and island politics	March 10, 2004	Aristotelis Pavlidis	* 1943
Minister of State without portfolio	March 10, 2004	Theodoros Rousopoulos	* 1963
Minister of State without portfolio	August 24, 2007	Xenophon-Rodolphos Moronis	* 1945

Web links

• Cabinet Kostas Karamanlis I ( Memento from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Greek government
• Greece: Ministries (rulers.org)

Remarks

1. ^ The Ministry of Tourism was renamed the Ministry of Tourism Development on April 22, 2005