Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has reshuffled his cabinet, two days after the smallest party in his ruling coalition quit the government to protest the abrupt closure of the country’s state broadcaster.

Samaras named Evangelos Venizelos, the head of his only remaining ally party, Socialist PASOK, the posts of deputy prime minister and foreign minister.

Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras kept his job, remaining Greece’s key negotiator with international lenders. Conservative lawmaker Kyriakos Mitsotakis was put in charge of the ministry of administrative reform which has to cut 15,000 jobs.

Outgoing foreign minister Dimitris Avramopoulos moved to the Ministry of Defense. In an updated coalition agreement to be released, Samaras and Venizelos are expected to reiterate their pledge to meet Greece’s fiscal goals. But they will reject new austerity measures and push lenders for gradual tax cuts to help soften a severe recession already in its sixth year.