First cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis

First Cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis
Cabinet of Greece
Karamanlis during the 14 December 2006 EPP summit.
Date formed	10 March 2004 (2004-03-10)
Date dissolved	18 September 2007 (2007-09-18)
People and organisations
Head of state	Konstantinos Stephanopoulos (until 12/03/05) Karolos Papoulias [1] (from 12/03/05)
Head of government	Kostas Karamanlis
Member parties	New Democracy (ND)
Status in legislature	Majority government
Opposition parties	Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA)
Opposition leader	George Papandreou
History
Election	2004 Greek legislative election
Legislature term	11th (2004–2007)
Predecessor	Costas Simitis III cabinet
Successor	Kostas Karamanlis II cabinet

Kostas Karamanlis served as a Prime Minister of Greece for two consecutive terms. During his incumbency, the period 2004-2009, he formed two cabinets. ^[2] The first Karamanlis Cabinet succeeded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) cabinet of Costas Simitis after the 2004 elections, ^[3] and was followed by Karamanlis' Second Cabinet after the 2007 elections.

The cabinet

After his party's victory in the 2004 election, ^[2] the new cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis was sworn in on 10 March. ^[4]

In February 2006, Karamanlis announced his first major cabinet reshuffle. ^[5]

Office	Incumbent	Since
Prime Minister	Kostas Karamanlis [2] [4]	March 10, 2004
Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy	Aristotelis Pavlidis [6] [7]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Culture and Athletics	Kostas Karamanlis [4]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Georgios Voulgarakis [8]	February 15, 2006
Minister for Development	Dimitris Sioufas [9] [7]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Economy and Finance	Georgios Alogoskoufis [10] [11]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Employment and Social Protection	Panos Panagiotopoulos [12] [7]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Savvas Tsitouridis [11] [13]	February 15, 2006
replaced by	Vasilios Magginas [14]	April 30, 2007
Minister for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Public Works	Georgios Souflias [15] [7]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Petros Molyviatis [16]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Dora Bakoyannis [8]	February 15, 2006
Minister for Health and Social Solidarity	Nikitas Kaklamanis [17] [18]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Dimitris Avramopoulos [19]	February 15, 2006
Minister for the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation	Prokopis Pavlopoulos [1]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Justice	Anastasios Papaligouras [7]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Macedonia–Thrace	Nikos Tsiartsionis [7]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Georgios Kalantzis	February 15, 2006
Minister for Mercantile Marine	Manolis Kefalogiannis [7]	March 10, 2004
Minister for National Defence	Spilios Spiliotopoulos [7]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Vangelis Meimarakis	February 15, 2006
Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs	Marietta Giannakou [7]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Public Order	Georgios Voulgarakis [20] [7]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Byron Polydoras [8]	February 15, 2006
Minister for Rural Development and Food	Savvas Tsitouridis [7]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Evangelos Basiakos	September 23, 2004
Minister for State	Theodoros Roussopoulos [7]	March 10, 2004
Minister for Tourism	Dimitris Avramopoulos [7]	March 10, 2004
replaced by	Fani Palli-Petralia	February 15, 2006
Minister for Transport and Communications	Michalis Liapis [7]	March 10, 2004
Alternate Minister for Culture and Athletics	Fani Palli-Petralia [7]	March 10, 2004
left position when	post abolished	February 15, 2006

References

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See also

• List of cabinets of Greece