[MGSA-L] NEW CABINET

June Samaras june.samaras at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 12:02:58 PDT 2013


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Pasok handed key posts in new cabinet
Eleven Pasok nominees made ministers in Antonis Samaras' second cabinet
Updated At: 10:49 Tuesday 25 June 2013
Evangelos Venizelos becomes foreign minister, pushing the previous
incumbent, Dimitris Avramopoulos, to defence. Other senior Pasok
nominations include Chrysochoidis in transport and Yiannis Maniatis in
environment and energy

A deal is struck: Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos leaves the prime
minister's office after a meeting, 24 June 2013 (Reuters)
Eleven Pasok nominees took key posts in a cabinet reshuffle on Monday,
following a political crisis over the decision by Prime Minister
Antonis Samaras to shut state broadcaster ERT.

Party leader Evangelos Venizelos was named foreign minister and also
returns to the position of deputy prime minister, which he held from
June 2011 to March 2012 when he was also finance minister.

Pasok's eleven representatives - out of a total government strengh of
42 - includes eight MPs and three unelected nominees: Fofi Gennimata
(party spokesperson), Dimitris Kourkoulas (a technocrat) and
journalist Pantelis Kapsis, whose father was a Pasok minister.

Samaras' year-old government narrowly avoided collapse after he
ordered ERT's closure on June 11. Coalition member Democratic Left
quit the government on Friday. The two-party coalition government now
has a slender majority in parliament; it controls 153 seats of the 300
seats.

Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras remained in his position to push
through more austerity measures and wide-ranging economic
restructuring.

The new government has already had a "resignation" before it was sworn
on. Hours after she was named as a new deputy health minister, Sofia
Voultepsi (ND) said she would not be taking the position, which will
now go to Zetta Makri (ND), three months after becoming an MP.

The government still faces some of its toughest challenges. ERT's
closure was triggered in part by its pledge to fire 15,000 public
sector employees by the end of next year.

Pasok, which had nominated technocrats to the previous cabinet, has
seen its support continue to plummet since the 2012 general elections,
with some surveys projecting that its popularity has dropped to as low
as 6.5%.

Other senior Pasok officials were granted top posts: Michalis
Chrysochoidis becomes transport minister, while Yiannis Maniatis takes
the environment and energy brief.

The new government comprises 42 members, 19 of whom sit at the
cabinet. The reshuffle involved increasing the number of ministries by
two, from 17 to 19, with the portfolios of culture and shipping being
upgraded.

It also contains 19 new faces, eight of whom are ministers for the first time.

One of the main issues confronting the government is how to transition
ERT to a new public broadcaster. Former newspaper editor and
government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis has been given that
responsibility, becoming deputy minister for public radio and
television.

State TV and radio signals remain blank, while fired ERT employees are
continuing, for the 14th day running, unauthorised broadcasts that are
being livestreamed on the internet.

Senior members of Democratic Left are due to meet later in the week to
determine whether to offer the government partial support in
parliament.

The new cabinet is due to be sworn in at 12.30pm on Tuesday.

Ministers who kept their jobs (18)
Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos (Education)
Nikos Dendias (Public Order)
Maximos Harakopoulos (Rural Development)
Kostis Hatzidakis (Development)
Stavros Kalafatis (Environment and Energy)
Theodoros Karaoglou (Macedonia-Thrace)
Simos Kedikoglou (Spokesman)
Olga Kefalogianni (Tourism)
Dimitris Kourkoulas (Foreign)
George Mavraganis (Finance)
Notis Mitarakis (Development)
Asimakis Papageorgiou (Environment and Energy)
Thanasis Skordas (Development)
Christos Staikouras (Finance)
Dimitris Stamatis (State)
Yannis Stournaras (Finance)
Athanasios Tsaftaris (Rural Development)
Yiannis Vroutsis (Labour)
Ministers who lost their jobs (18)
Dimitris Elefsiniotis ((Defence)
Yiannis Ioannidis (Education/sports)
Stavros Kaloyiannis (Development)
Panagiotis Karabelas (Defence)
Konstantinos Karagkounis (Justice)
Andreas Lykourentzos (Health)
Antonis Manitakis* (Administrative Reform)
Kostis Moussouroulis (Shipping)
Nikos Panagiotopoulos (Labour)
Theodoros Papatheodorou* (Education)
Antonis Roupakiotis* (Justice)
Marios Salmas (Health)
Fotini Skopouli* (Health)
Evripidis Stylianidis (Interior)
Kostas Tsiaras (Foreign)
Kostas Tzavaras (Education/culture)
Kyriakos Virvidakis (Development)
Manousos Voloudakis (Administrative Reform)
* = had previously resigned following Democratic Left's withdrawal
from government

Former ministers returning to office (11)
Antonis Bezas (Health)
Michalis Chrisochoidis (Transport)
Evi Christofilopoulou (Administrative Reform)
Thanasis Davakis (Defence)
Fofi Gennimata (Defence)
Adonis Georgiadis (Health)
Pantelis Kapsis (Public Radio and Television)
Vasilis Kegeroglou (Labour)
Yiannis Maniatis (Environment)
Miltiadis Varvitsiotis (Shipping)
Evangelos Venizelos (Foreign)

First-time ministers (8)
Yannis Andrianos (Culture and sports)
Akis Gerontopoulos (Foreign)
Kostas Gioulekas (Education)
Leonidas Grigorakos (Interior)
Symeon Kedikoglou (Education)
Zetta Makri (Health)
Yannis Michelakis (Interior)
Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Administrative Reform)

Transfers (2)
Dimitris Avramopoulos (Foreign to Defence)
Panos Panagiotopoulos (Defence to Culture and Sports)

Promotion (1)
Haralambos Athanassiou (Deputy interior minister to justice minister)

AP, EnetEnglish
The new government
Author: Damian Mac Con Uladh
Full list of new cabinet, alternate and deputy ministers
Antonis Samaras announces government reshuffle following the
withdrawal of Democratic Left from the coalition on Friday. Under the
new arrangement, Pasok MPs will become ministers for the first time in
the coalition government

Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos becomes deputy prime minister and
foreign minister in the government reshuffle (Reuters)
On 24 June 2013, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, and his coalition
partner, Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos, announced a government
reshuffle. Under the new arrangement, Pasok MPs will join the
government for the first time. The new ministers are expected to be
sworn in this week.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (ND)

Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos (Pasok, also foreign minister)

Administrative Reform and E-Governance Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (ND)

- Alternate Evi Christofilopoulou (Pasok)

Culture and Sports Minister Panos Panagiotopoulos (ND)

- Deputy Yannis Andrianos (ND)

Defence Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos  (ND)

- Alternate Fofi Gennimata (Pasok)

- Deputy Thanasis Davakis (ND)

Development and Competitiveness Minister Kostis Hatzidakis (ND)

- Deputy Thanasis Skordas (ND)

- Deputy Notis Mitarakis (ND, responsible for private investment)

Education and Religious Affairs Minister Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos (ND)

- Deputy Symeon Kedikoglou (Pasok)

- Deputy Kostas Gioulekas (ND)

Environment, Energy & Climate Change Minister Yiannis Maniatis (Pasok)

- Alternate Stavros Kalafatis (ND)

- Deputy Asimakis Papageorgiou (ND, unelected. Former manager in energy sector)

Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras (technocrat, unelected)

- Alternate Christos Staikouras (ND, responsible for public spending)

- Deputy George Mavraganis (Responsible for revenue. Former tax expert
with KPMG)

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos (Pasok)

- Deputy Dimitris Kourkoulas (Pasok-nominated technocrat, former
European Commission official)

- Deputy Akis Gerontopoulos (ND)

Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis (ND)

- Deputy Antonis Bezas (ND)

- Deputy Zetta Makri (ND) (The original nominee, Sofia Voultepsi (ND),
announced on June 25 she would not be going forward)Sofia Voultepsi
(ND)

Infrastructure, Transport and Networds Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis (Pasok)

- Deputy Michalis Papadopoulos (ND)

Interior Minister Yannis Michelakis (ND)

- Alternate Leonidas Grigorakos (Pasok)

Justice, Transparency and Human Rights Minister Haralambos Athanassiou
(ND, former Areios Pagos judge and head of the Union of Judges and
Prosecutors (EDE))

Labour, Social Security and Welfare Minister Yiannis Vroutsis (ND)

- Deputy Vasilis Kegeroglou (Pasok)

Macedonia-Thrace Minister Theodoros Karaoglou (ND)

Public Order and Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Dendias (ND)

Rural Development and Food Minister Athanasios Tsaftaris (technocrat,
prof of genetics and plant breeding)

- Alternate Maximos Harakopoulos (ND)

Shipping Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis (ND)

Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni (ND)

State Minister Dimitris Stamatis (ND)

Deputy State Minister (and government spokesman) Simos Kedikoglou (ND)

Deputy Minister for Public Broadcasting Pantelis Kapsis (journlalist,
Pasok-nominated, unelected)

Parliamentary speaker Vangelis Meimarakis (ND)

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