Antonis Samaras (Greek: ??t???? Saµa???, pronounced [an'donis sama'?as]; born 23 May 1951) is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015.
A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015.
Samaras started his national political career as Minister of Finance in 1989; he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1992 (with a brief interruption in 1990) and Minister of Culture and Sports in 2009.
Samaras was previously best known for a 1993 controversy in which 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.
He was the seventh party leader since it was founded in 1974.