Andonis Samara's cabinet
The Samaras cabinet formed the government of Greece from June 21, 2012 to January 26, 2015 under Andonis Samaras of the Nea Dimokratia . After the parliamentary elections on June 17, the Pikrammenos cabinet followed . After the failed attempts after the May 6, 2012 election to form a government with a majority, it had been in office as a transitional government since May 17, 2012.
Reign
The government was initially supported by a coalition of the conservative Nea Dimokratia (ND) with the social democratic PASOK and the left- wing democratic DIMAR , it had a clear majority of 179 of the 300 parliamentary seats. There were no politicians from either left party in the cabinet.
Since Vasilis Rapanos, who was originally appointed Minister of Finance, was unable to take up office after a fit of weakness for health reasons, Giorgos Zanias from the previous government ran the business until Giannis Stournaras was appointed on July 5, 2012.
A cabinet reshuffle occurred in June 2013 because the Nea Dimokratia decided to close the state radio and television company ERT without consulting its coalition partners PASOK and DIMAR . On June 21, 2013, Fotis Kouvelis ' DIMAR party , the smallest of the three Greek governing parties, announced its withdrawal from the coalition. Ministers Manitakis and Roupakiotis, who were sent to the cabinet by DIMAR, announced their resignation after DIMAR left the coalition. As a result, the new government coalition from New Democracy led by Prime Minister Samaras and the Evangelos Venizelos led PASOK only had a majority of 153 of the 300 seats in parliament. On June 24, 2013, Samaras and Venizelos agreed on a new coalition. Venizelos became Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
Another cabinet reshuffle was carried out on June 10, 2014 after losing votes in the 2014 European elections . After the previous Defense Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos took over the post of Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship in the Juncker cabinet of the European Commission on November 1, 2014 , Nikos Dendias became his successor. Dendias had previously been "Minister for Public Order and Citizen Protection" and then (since June 25, 2013) "Minister for Development and Competitiveness".
Cabinet members
Ministry < | Official | Greek spelling | Political party |
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Prime Minister | Andonis Samaras | Αντώνης Σαμαράς | Nea Dimokratia |
Deputy Prime Minister since June 25, 2013 | Evangelos Venizelos | Ευάγγελος Βενιζέλος | PASOK |
Foreign minister | Dimitris Avramopoulos | Δημήτρης Αβραμόπουλος | Nea Dimokratia |
Evangelos Venizelos since June 25, 2013 | Ευάγγελος Βενιζέλος | PASOK | |
Interior minister | Evripidis Stylianidis | Ευριπίδης Στυλιανίδης | Nea Dimokratia |
Giannis Michelakis since June 25, 2013 | Γιάννης Μιχελάκης | Nea Dimokratia | |
Argyris Dinopoulos since June 10, 2014 | Αργύρης Ντινόπουλος | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister of Economic Affairs since July 5, 2012 | Giannis Stournaras | Γιάννης Στουρνάρας | Non-party |
Gikas Chardouvelis since June 10, 2014 | Γκίκας Χαρδούβελης | Non-party | |
Defense Minister | Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos | Παναγιώτης Παναγιωτόπουλος | Nea Dimokratia |
Dimitris Avramopoulos since June 25, 2013 | Δημήτρης Αβραμόπουλος | Nea Dimokratia | |
Nikos Dendias since November 3, 2014 | Νίκος Δένδιας | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister for the Merchant Navy and the Aegean Sea | Kostis Mousouroulis | Κωστής Μουσουρούλη | Nea Dimokratia |
Miltiadis Varvitsiotis since June 25, 2013 | Μιλτιάδης Βαρβιτσιώτης | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister of Justice | Andonis Roupakiotis | Αντώνης Ρουπακιώτης | Independent, DIMAR proposal |
Charalambos Athanasiou since June 25, 2013 | Χαράλαμπος Αθανασίου | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister of Labor | Giannis Vroutsis | Γιάννης Βρούτσης | Nea Dimokratia |
Minister of Education and Culture until June 25, 2013 | Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos | Κωνσταντίνος Αρβανιτόπουλος | Nea Dimokratia |
Minister of Education since June 25, 2013 | Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos | Κωνσταντίνος Αρβανιτόπουλος | Nea Dimokratia |
Andreas Loverdos since June 10, 2014 | Ανδρέας Λοβέρδος | PASOK | |
Minister of Culture since June 25, 2013 | Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos | Παναγιώτης Παναγιωτόπουλος | Nea Dimokratia |
Konstantinos Tasoulas since June 10, 2014 | Κωνσταντίνος Τασούλας | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change | Evangelos Livieratos | Ευάγγελος Λιβιεράτος | Non-party, PASOK proposal |
Giannis Maniatis since June 25, 2013 | Γιάννης Μανιάτης | PASOK | |
Minister for Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks until June 25, 2013 | Kostis Chatzidakis | Κωστής Χατζηδάκης | Nea Dimokratia |
Minister for Development and Competitiveness since June 25, 2013 | Kostis Chatzidakis | Κωστής Χατζηδάκης | Nea Dimokratia |
Nikos Dendias since June 10, 2014 | Νίκος Δένδιας | Nea Dimokratia | |
Konstandinos Skrekas since November 3rd, 2014 | Κώστας Σκρέκας | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks since June 25, 2013 | Michalis Chrysochoidis | Μιχάλης Χρυσοχοϊδης | PASOK |
Minister of Health | Andreas Lykourentzos | Ανδρέας Λυκουρέντζος | Nea Dimokratia |
Adonis Georgiadis since June 25, 2013 | Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης | Nea Dimokratia | |
Makis Voridis since June 10, 2014 | Μάκης Μαυρουδής Βορίδης | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister for Rural Development and Food | Athanasios Tsaftsaris | Αθανάσιος Τσαυτάρης | Non-party, PASOK proposal |
Giorgos Karasmanis since June 10, 2014 | Γιώργος Καρασμάνης | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister of Tourism | Olga Kefalogianni | Όλγα Κεφαλογιάννη | Nea Dimokratia |
Minister for Macedonia and Thrace | Theodoros Karaoglou | Θεόδωρος Καράογλου | Nea Dimokratia |
Georgios Orfanos since June 10, 2014 | Γεώργιος Ορφανός | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister for Administrative Reform and E-Government | Andonis Manitakis | Αντώνης Μανιτάκης | Independent, DIMAR proposal |
Kyriakos Mitsotakis since June 25, 2013 | Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister for Public Order and Citizen Protection | Nikos Dendias | Νίκος Δένδιας | Nea Dimokratia |
Vasilis Kikilias since June 10, 2014 | Βασίλης Κικίλιας | Nea Dimokratia | |
Minister of State | Dimitris Stamatis | Δημήτρης Σταμάτης | Nea Dimokratia |
sequence
Samaras announced an early presidential election on December 8, 2014 , although his coalition government did not have the required majorities. His candidate Stavros Dimas failed in three ballots. According to the constitution, parliament was dissolved and the parliamentary elections held early on January 25, 2015, from which the opposition, left-wing radical party SYRIZA led by Alexis Tsipras emerged as the strongest party. The following day, Tsipras was sworn in as prime minister.
On January 27, 2015, the Samara cabinet was replaced by the Tsipras cabinet .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pro-European parties form government in Greece . Deutsche Welle , June 20, 2012
- ↑ The politicians are also weak . Deutsche Welle , June 25, 2012
- ↑ There were two more . faz.net June 21, 2013. The triple coalition is over: Greece is shaking through the days of chaos . Spiegel Online , June 21, 2013
- ↑ Debt crisis: Greece's new government is in place . Spiegel Online , June 24, 2013
- ↑ Greece's finance minister has to go . Deutsche Welle , June 10, 2014
- ^ Mini cabinet reshuffle in Greece . griechenland.net, October 31, 2014
- ↑ Presidential election in Greece is preferred . Deutsche Welle , December 9, 2014.
- ↑ Greeks before new elections - new euro crisis? Deutsche Welle , December 29, 2014.
- ↑ Greek election winner Tsipras already head of government . Deutsche Welle , January 26, 2015.