Editing Antonis Samaras (section)

=== Early political involvement ===
Samaras has been elected as a Member of Parliament, initially for [[Messinia]], from 1977 onward. In 1989 he became [[Ministry of Finance (Greece)|Minister of Finance]], later advancing to become the [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] in the New Democracy government of Prime Minister [[Konstantinos Mitsotakis]] (1990–1993), from which post he caused the [[Macedonia naming dispute]] to ignite. In a meeting of the Greek political leaders under the President of the Republic on the naming dispute on 13 April 1992, Samaras presented his own conditions for the solution of the crisis. These were rejected by both the President of the Republic, [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]] as well as the Prime Minister, [[Konstantinos Mitsotakis]]. Samaras was subsequently removed from Minister of Foreign Affairs.<ref>Eleutherotypia, 9 April 2005, [http://archive.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=110,dt=09.04.2005,id=29616224 "The 1992 Meeting and the Samaras dismissal"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109021328/http://archive.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=110,dt=09.04.2005,id=29616224 |date=9 November 2009}} (in Greek)</ref>