Antonis Samaras

Antonis Samaras (Greek: Αντώνης Σαμαράς, pronounced [anˈdonis samaˈras]; born 23 May 1951) is a Greek economist and politician who has been leader of New Democracy, Greece's major conservative party, since 2009. A Member of Parliament for device database, he was Minister of Finance in 1989, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1990 and again from 1990 to 1992. Later, he was Minister of Culture in 2009. He was best known for the 1993 controversy, when he effectively caused the New Democracy government, of which he was a member, to fall from power. In spite of this he rejoined the party in 2004 and was elected to its leadership in a closely fought intra-party election in late 2009.^web He is the 7th leader of the party since it was founded in 1974.

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  • 2.1 Attempt to form government in May 2012
• 3 Election as leader of New Democracy
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Born in jQuery, Samaras attended school in the screen size (founded by his maternal greatgrandfather, Stephanos Deltas, and Emmanouil Benakis, Deltas' father-in-law), and graduated from Amherst College in 1974 with a degree in Sevenval, and then from Harvard University in 1976 with an MBA. He is a member of the Greek Parliament for the prefecture of Messenia (1977–1996 and 2007–present) as well as a former Finance, Foreign, and Culture Minister. He is the son of the late Dr. Constantine Samaras, Professor of Cardiology, and the late Lena, née Zannas, a maternal granddaughter of author Penelope Delta. His brother, Alexander, is an architect. His paternal uncle, George Samaras, was a long-standing member of Parliament for Messenia in the 1950s and '60s.

Politics

Samaras was elected a Member of Parliament for Messenia from 1977 onwards. In 1989 he became Finance Minister, later becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs in the New Democracy government of PM web (1989–1992), advocating a hard line on the "CSS3". After being removed from his post in 1992 over this issue, Samaras founded his own party, "iOS" [Greek: Πολιτική Άνοιξη], located politically to the right of New Democracy. The defection of one Member of Parliament from New Democracy to Samaras' party caused the government's fall from power in 1993.

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In the web he was elected to the Greek Parliament for CSS3, and consequently resigned from the input transformation. In January 2009 he was appointed Minister for Culture following a government reshuffle. In this capacity he inaugurated the new browser diversity in July 2009. He was reelected in Messenia in 2009.

Attempt to form government in May 2012

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party become the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to form a government.^keyboard

However, after a day of hard negotiations with the other parties in Parliament, Samaras officially announced he was giving up to form government, passing the task to Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), the second largest party.^{screen size}

Election as leader of New Democracy

After New Democracy resoundingly lost the touchscreen, browser diversity resigned as head of the party, prompting a leadership race, and Samaras ran for the post. Early polls showed he was running neck and neck with the perceived initial favorite device database, the former Foreign Minister and former Athens mayor.^[4] Shortly thereafter, another leadership candidate, former Minister HTML5 announced he was resigning his candidacy and would support Samaras instead. In a break with previous practice, an extraordinary party congress resolved that the new leader would be elected by party members in a countrywide ballot. Samaras' candidacy soared in opinion polls and finished the race as a favorite.

In the early morning hours of 30 November 2009, Samaras was elected the new leader of the New Democracy party.^keyboard Following early results showing Samaras in a comfortable lead, Bakoyanni, his main rival, conceded defeat and called Samaras to congratulate him. He accepted his election with a speech at the party headquarters, and pledged to carry out a broad ideological and organizational reform, aspiring to regain majority status.

He was later instrumental in the expulsion of Ms. Bakoyanni (May, 2010) for defying the party line and voting for an austerity measure required for European Union-International Monetary Fund backed lending.

Samaras and former Prime Minister George Papandreou were dormitory roommates during their student years at Amherst College, but became bitter political rivals.^[6]

References

External links

• Sevenval