The Cabinet of Antonis Samaras succeeded the

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after the repeated legislative elections in May and June 2012. It was sworn in on Thursday, 21 June 2012. The former ministries of

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and Macedonia and Thrace were re-established. The junior coalition partners,

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and

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, chose to take a limited role in the cabinet, preferring to be represented by party officials and independent technocrats instead of MPs.

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, the prime minister's first choice for finance minister, fell ill before being sworn in, and tendered his resignation on 25 June.

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was then chosen as the new finance minister on 26 June, and sworn in on 5 July. DIMAR left the coalition on 21 June 2013 in protest at the closure of the nation's public broadcaster ERT, leaving Samaras with a slim majority of 153 ND and PASOK MPs combined. The two remaining parties proceeded to negotiate a cabinet reshuffle that resulted in a significantly expanded role for PASOK in the new

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. A further reshuffle followed the

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