User:PanchoS/Second Cabinet of Costas Simitis

Costas Simitis served as a Prime Minister of Greece for three consecutive terms (1996-2004), at the head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). His second cabinet was formed after the 1996 elections.

The Cabinet[edit]

Office	Incumbent	Since
Prime Minister	Costas Simitis	25 September 1996
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Theodoros Pangalos	25 September 1996
replaced by	George Papandreou	19 February 1999
Minister for National Defence	Akis Tsochatzopoulos	25. September 1996
Minister for the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization	Alekos Papadopoulos	25. September 1996
replaced by	Vasso Papandreou	19 February 1999
replaced by	Georgios Koumantos [el]	20 March 2000
Minister of Economy and Finance	Yiannos Papantoniou	25. September 1996
Minister for Justice	Evangelos Giannopoulos [el]	25. September 1996
replaced by	Dimitris Gourgourakis [el]	24 October 2001
Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works	Kostas Laliotis [el]	25. September 1996
Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs	Petros Efthymiou	25 September 1996
Minister for Transport and Communications	Christos Verelis	25 September 1996
Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity	Tasos Giannitsis	25 September 1996
replaced by	Dimitris Reppas	24 October 2001
Minister for Health and Social Security	Alekos Papadopoulos	25 September 1996
replaced by	Konstantinos Stefanis [el]	13 June 2002
Minister for Agriculture	Giorgos Anomeritis [el]	25 September 1996
replaced by	Georgios Drys	24 October 2001
Minister for Public Order	Michalis Chrisochoidis	25 September 1996
replaced by	Giorgos Floridis [de]	7 July 2003
Minister for Culture	Evangelos Venizelos	25 September 1996
replaced by	Elisavet Papazoi	19 February 1999
Minister for Development	Vasso Papandreou	25 September 1996
replaced by	Evangelos Venizelos	19 Fabruary 1999
Minister for Mercantile Marine	Stavros Soumakis	25 September 1996
Minister for the Press and the Media	Dimitris Reppas	25 September 1996
replaced by	Argyris Fatouros	20 March 2000
Minister for Macedonia and Thrace	Filippos Petsalnikos	25 September 1996
replaced by	Ioannis Mangriotis [bg]	7 July 2003
Minister for the Aegean	Nikolaos Sifounakis	25 September 1996
Minister of State	Miltiadis Papaioannou	25 September 1996
replaced by	Stefanos Manikas	24 October 2001
replaced by	Alexandros Akrivakis [el]	7 July 2003