Cabinet of Antonis Samaras
Cabinet of Greece
Antonis Samaras in 2014
Date formed	21 June 2012 (2012-06-21)
Date dissolved	26 January 2015 (2015-01-26)
People and organisations
Head of state	Karolos Papoulias
Head of government	Antonis Samaras
Deputy head of government	Evangelos Venizelos (since 25 June 2013)
Member parties	New Democracy, PASOK, Democratic Left (DIMAR, until 21 June 2013
Status in legislature	Majoritycoalition government
Opposition parties	Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Independent Greeks (ANEL) Golden Dawn Democratic Left (DIMAR) (from 21 June 2013) Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
Opposition leader	Alexis Tsipras
History
Election	June 2012 Greek legislative election
Legislature term	15th (2012–2015)
Predecessor	Pikrammenos Caretaker Cabinet
Successor	Tsipras Cabinet

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TheCabinet of Antonis Samaras succeeded theCaretaker Cabinet of Panayiotis Pikrammenos after the repeatedlegislative elections in May and June 2012.

The cabinet was sworn in on Thursday, 21 June 2012.^[1] The former ministries ofShipping,Tourism andMacedonia and Thrace were re-established.^[2] The junior coalition partners,PASOK andDIMAR, chose to take a limited role in the cabinet, preferring to be represented by party officials and independent technocrats instead of MPs.^[3]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.^[4][5]

DIMAR left the coalition on 21 June 2013 in protest at the closure of the nation's public broadcasterERT, leavingAntonis Samaras with a slim majority of 153 ND and PASOK MPs combined.^[6] The two remaining parties proceeded to negotiate a cabinet reshuffle that resulted in a significantly expanded role for PASOK in the newcoalition government.^[7][8] A further reshuffle followed the2014 European Parliament election.^[9]

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