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Antonis Samaras (1970), The current Prime Minister of Greece and, since 2009, leader of the New Democracy party, Greece's major conservative party and main opposition party.
Zakythinos also served briefly as Minister to the Prime Minister in the interim 1963–64 government of Ioannis Paraskevopoulos, while after the fall of the Regime of the Colonels, he was elected to the Greek Parliament in the November 1974 elections, on the list of the conservative New Democracy party, serving until 1977.
After an agreement between the three biggest parties, New Democracy, Panhellenic Socialist Movement and Coalition of the Left and Progress, it was formed an ecumenical government under Xenophon Zolotas, an eminent economist, which replaced the previous caretaker government of Ioannis Grivas.
Presently, there are six Greek parties represented in the European Parliament: New Democracy, PASOK, Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza), Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) and Ecologist Greens.
On 12 December 2004, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, leader of the governing New Democracy party, and George Papandreou, leader of the PASOK opposition, nominated Papoulias for the presidency, which is chosen by the Parliament.
However PASOK decided to help the formation of a government by joining with New Democracy as well as the Democratic Left of Fotis Kouvelis in a coalition under Prime Minister Samaras.
The ND (New Democracy) government was defeated by Andreas Papandreou's PASOK in 1981, and in 1984 Mitsotakis succeeded Evangelos Averoff as ND leader.