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Prime Minister of Greece Jun 2012 – Jan 2015 Government
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The First Shadow Cabinet of Antonis Samaras was formed in 2009. A reshuffle was made in 2011. Following the June 2012 Greek legislative election, the Cabinet of Antonis Samaras was formed. The Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras became the next Shadow Cabinet.
The Shadow Cabinet was formed in December 2009, following the 2009 Greek legislative election. There was a "radical" cabinet reshuffle in January 2011. The Shadow Cabinet was dissolved following the May 2012 Greek legislative election, as there was no official opposition to the Caretaker Cabinet of Panagiotis Pikrammenos. Following the ND-PASOK-DIMAR coalition after the June 2012 Greek legislative election, the Cabinet of Antonis Samaras was formed, and the Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras became the next Shadow Cabinet.
Antonis Samaras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. Samaras started his national political career as Minister of Finance in 1989; he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1992 and Minister of Culture and Sports in 2009.
Evangelos-Vasileios "Vangelis" Meimarakis, is a Greek lawyer and politician who served as the acting President of New Democracy and Leader of the Opposition in Greece from 5 July to 24 November 2015, competing as the challenger to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the September 2015 Greek legislative election. He lost in the run-off of the New Democracy leadership election, 2015–16. Since 2019, he has been a Member of the European Parliament.
The Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a government agency of Greece. The Minister for Foreign Affairs controls the agency. The ministry has its headquarters in Athens.
The Ministry of Digital Governance is a government department of Greece. It was initially formed on 27 June 2011 as the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Electronic Governance. On 27 January 2015, it was merged with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection to form the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reorganization. It was revived as two distinct ministries on 5 November 2016: the Ministry of Administrative Reorganization and the Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media. The former was reabsorbed by the Ministry of the Interior on 9 July 2019, while the latter was renamed the Ministry of Digital Governance. The incumbent minister in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is Kyriakos Pierrakakis, who also serves as one of three Ministers of State.
The Ministry of Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Communications was a Greek Government Ministry. It was established on June 21, 2012, following a proposal by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
The 2014 European Parliament election in Greece for the election of the delegation from Greece to the European Parliament took place on 25 May 2014, coinciding with local elections. The number of seats allocated to Greece declined from 22 to 21, as a result of the 2013 reapportionment of seats in the European Parliament.
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.
Nikolaos "Nikos" Dendias is a Greek lawyer and politician of the conservative New Democracy party. He is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Corfu, and was Minister for National Defence from November 2014 to January 2015. As of 2022, he is the current Foreign Minister of Greece.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Greece.
Following his victory in legislative elections held on 25 January 2015, the newly elected Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appointed a new cabinet to succeed the cabinet of Antonis Samaras, his predecessor. A significant reshuffle took place on 17 July 2015.
Dimitris Mardas is a Greek economist and politician who served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He previously served as the Alternate Minister of Revenue in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He was a Member of the Hellenic Parliament from 2015 until 2019, representing Thessaloniki B.
Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos is a Greek economist and politician who was Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 to 2019. He is also a member of the Central Committee of Syriza and has represented Athens B in the Hellenic Parliament since May 2012.
The 2015–16 New Democracy leadership election refers to the two-round election to determine the next president of New Democracy, after the resignation of Antonis Samaras on 5 July 2015. The first round was held on 20 December 2015 and the second round was held on 10 January 2016. Kyriakos Mitsotakis was elected as the new president.
The Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras was formed on 3 July 2012, following the June 2012 Greek legislative election. It consisted of only Syriza MPs, as they were the largest party to refuse to participate in the ND-PASOK-DIMAR coalition. The Shadow Cabinet was dissolved following the January 2015 Greek legislative election, and was replaced by a New Democracy shadow cabinet led by Antonis Samaras. Tsipras subsequently formed the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras on 27 January 2015, formed from a coalition of both Syriza and the Independent Greeks.
Christos Zois is a Greek politician. He is currently the leader of NEA MERA, and Deputy Chairman of the Union for the Homeland and the People.
Christos Staikouras is a Greek economist and politician who is currently New Democracy's coordinator of economic affairs. Since the 2007 legislative election, he has been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament (MP) for Phthiotis. After the 2019 election, he was appointed minister for finance in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The Shadow Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis was announced on 21 January 2016, ten days after the election of Kyriakos Mitsotakis as President of New Democracy. As Leader of the Opposition, Mitsotakis could appoint a shadow cabinet to assist him in his duties.
Ioannis Vroutsis is a Greek economist, lawyer and politician, serving as the New Democracy MP for Cyclades and serving as a parliamentary spokesman for New Democracy since 5 January 2021, having previously served as Minister of Labour, Social Security and Welfare in 21 June 2012 - 27 January 2015 and 9 July 2019 - 5 January 2021.
Kostas Skrekas is a Greek civil engineer and politician of the New Democracy party who has been serving as Minister of the Environment and Energy in the cabinet of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis since 2021.
Katerina Papakosta is a Greek politician and former MP. She is the president of the New Greek Momentum, while she had served as Deputy Minister of Civil Protection in the second cabinet of Alexis Tsipras in September 2015.
