Cabinet of George Papandreou
The Cabinet Giorgos Andrea Papandreou ruled Greece of 7 October 2009 to 11 November 2011 and was followed by the Cabinet Kostas Karamanlis II
Minister
Changes in June 2011
¹ The terms of reference ( decentralization and e-government) was separated from the Ministry of Interior and turned into an independent Ministry
² The new Minister of State also took over the job of the government spokesman
All members of this Government were PASOK party to
Reign
In the parliamentary elections on October 4, 2009, PASOK won with a vote share of 43.9 percent, the absolute majority of parliamentary seats. Two days later Papandreou was sworn in as the new Prime Minister. He took in his government, until September 7, 2010 the State Department.
The beginning of his term in office was overshadowed by the Greek financial crisis outcropping. In a televised address early February 2010, Papandreou announced further austerity measures to avoid a national bankruptcy. Since then, the Papandreou government has increased taxes in several steps and decided drastic austerity measures. On behalf of the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Greece got it made a more than 110 billion loan package views. Multiple payments from this aid package have already been transferred to the Greek state budget. In mid-June 2011 made Papandreou under the pressure of massive protests his government to. He replaced his Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou by the former Defence Minister Evangelos Venizelos, after Loukas Papademos - could not win for this office - an economist and from 2002 to 2010 Vice- President of the European Central Bank ( ECB).
On June 19, 2011 Papandreou presented in the Parliament's confidence and announced for the fall of a referendum on where the Greek citizens to decide on reforms to "Modernization of the State". The vote on the question of confidence in the night of June 22 won Papandreou's government and the majority of MPs signaled their approval to new austerity requirements of the EU and the IMF. For the Government voted all 155 MPs of his party, the ruling PASOK. 143 MPs voted against, while two independent MPs were absent.
An early November 2011 Papandreou surprisingly unannounced referendum on the austerity measures, which went back to the decisions of the previous Euro summit in Brussels to help Greece ( cf. EFSF), Papandreou called off after massive domestic and foreign political criticism and turned then successfully a further confidence.
Succession
On 6 November 2011, Papandreou agreed with opposition leader Samaras on a transitional government with the participation of the parties, New Democracy and LAOS, which should ensure the implementation of the required objectives of the troika (EU, ECB and IMF) to lead the country out of crisis.
But he also made his office available which he officially gave on 9 November by his resignation.
So the Cabinet Papandreou was replaced by the Cabinet Loukas Papademos on November 11.