Editing Costas Simitis (section)

=== Ministerial offices ===
Simitis was not a candidate for the Greek Parliament in the [[1981 Greek legislative election|1981 elections]], but he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the first PASOK government of that year. Following the [[1985 Greek legislative election|1985 elections]] and his election as a deputy to the Parliament, he became Minister of National Economy; he undertook an unpopular stabilization program, trying to curb inflation and reduce deficits, but resigned his post in 1987 because he felt that his policies were being undermined.<ref name="ap"/> In 1993, he took over the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, but in 1995, he again resigned from the ministry and the party's Executive Bureau following a public rebuke he received from Prime Minister [[Andreas Papandreou]].