# Cabinet of Antonis Samaras

* This article is part of a series about Antonis Samaras
Political offices
President of Political Spring (1993–2004) President of New Democracy (2009–15) Leader of the Opposition (2009–12; 2015) Prime Minister of Greece (2012–15)
Leader of the Opposition
First term
2009 New Democracy leadership election
First Shadow Cabinet of Antonis Samaras
2010 Greek presidential election
First Memorandum
Second Memorandum
Second term
2015 Greek bailout referendum
Prime Minister of Greece
Samaras cabinet
Lagarde list
Seventh austerity package
Eighth austerity package
Ninth austerity package
Closure of ERT
2014–15 presidential election
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The Cabinet of Antonis Samaras succeeded the Caretaker Cabinet of Panagiotis Pikrammenos after the repeated legislative elections in May and June 2012. It was sworn in on Thursday, 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 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.
| Office | Officeholder | | Party | Dates |
| Prime Minister | Antonis Samaras | | New Democracy | 20 June 2012 – 26 January 2015 |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Vacant until 25 June 2013 | Vacant until 25 June 2013 | Vacant until 25 June 2013 | Vacant until 25 June 2013 |
| Deputy Prime Minister | 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 |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | Evangelos Venizelos | | PASOK | 25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister for Finance | Yannis Stournaras | | Independent | 5 July 2012 – 10 June 2014 |
| Minister for Finance | Gikas Hardouvelis | | Independent | 10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister for National Defence | Panos Panagiotopoulos | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 |
| Minister for National Defence | Dimitris Avramopoulos | | New Democracy | 25 June 2013 – 1 November 2014 |
| Minister for National Defence | Nikos Dendias | | New Democracy | 1 November 2014 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister for the Interior | Evripidis Stylianidis | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 |
| Minister for the Interior | Giannis Michelakis [el] | | New Democracy | 25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014 |
| Minister for the Interior | Argyris Dinopoulos [el] | | 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 |
| Minister for Development and Competitiveness | Nikos Dendias | | New Democracy | 10 June 2014 – 3 November 2014 |
| Minister for Development and Competitiveness | 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 | Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos [el] | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 |
| Post abolished 25 June 2013 ||||
| Minister for Education and Religious Affairs | Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos [el] | | New Democracy | 25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014 |
| Minister for Education and Religious Affairs | Andreas Loverdos | | PASOK | 10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister for Culture and Sport | Panos Panagiotopoulos | | New Democracy | 25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014 |
| Minister for Culture and Sport | 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 |
| Minister for Administrative Reform and e-Governance | Kyriakos Mitsotakis | | New Democracy | 25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister for Health | Andreas Lykourentzos [el] | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 |
| Minister for Health | Adonis Georgiades | | New Democracy | 25 June 2013 – 10 June 2014 |
| Minister for Health | 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 | Athanasios Tsaftaris [el] | | PASOK | 21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014 |
| Minister for Rural Development and Food | Giorgos Karasmanis [el] | | 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 |
| Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change | Giannis Maniatis [el] | | PASOK | 25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights | Antonios Roupakiotis | | Independent | 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 |
| Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights | Charalampos Athanasiou [el] | | 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 |
| Minister for Public Order and Citizen Protection | 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 | Konstantinos Mousouroulis [el] | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013 |
| Minister for Shipping and the Aegean | Miltiadis Varvitsiotis | | New Democracy | 25 June 2013 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister for Macedonia and Thrace | Theodoros Karaoglou [el] | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014 |
| Minister for Macedonia and Thrace | Georgios Orfanos | | New Democracy | 10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015 |
| Minister of State | Dimitrios I. Stamatis [el] | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 27 January 2015 |
| Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesperson | Simos Kedikoglou [el] | | New Democracy | 21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014 |
| Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesperson | Sofia Voultepsi | | New Democracy | 10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015 |