Nikos Androulakis

Nikos Androulakis (Greek: Νίκος Ανδρουλάκης; born 7 February 1979) is a Greek politician and president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and the PASOK – Movement for Change (PASOK–KINAL) since December 2021. In 2014 and in 2019, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

Nikos Androulakis
Νίκος Ανδρουλάκης
Androulakis in 2021
President of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Assumed office
12 December 2021
Preceded byFofi Gennimata
President of the PASOK – Movement for Change
Assumed office
12 December 2021
Preceded byFofi Gennimata
Member of the European Parliament
for Greece
In office
2 July 2014 – 2 May 2023
Succeeded byNikos Papandreou
Political Secretary of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
In office
14 March 2013 – 19 July 2015
Preceded byParis Koukoulopoulos
Succeeded byStefanos Jelakakis
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
Assumed office
21 May 2023
ConstituencyThessaloniki A
Personal details
Born (1979-02-07) 7 February 1979
Heraklion, Greece
Political partyPASOK
Other political
affiliations		PASOK – Movement for Change
Alma materDemocritus University of Thrace (BS, MS)
University of Athens
ProfessionCivil engineer, politician
Websiteandroulakisnikos.gr
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Nikos Androulakis
  • Political offices
  • Political secretary of PASOK (2013–2015)
  • MEP (2014–2023)
  • President of PASOK-KINAL (2021–present)
  • President of PASOK-KINAL

He returned to the Hellenic Parliament in the June 2023 Greek legislative election.[1]

Early life and career

Born 1979 in Heraklion, Androulakis studied civil engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace, from where he also received a MSc in "New Materials and Environment".[2] He has worked in the tourism industry and as a civil engineer, he also gave courses in the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education.[3]

Political career

Career in national politics

In 2001 Androulakis became a member of the Central Council of PASOK Youth and in 2008 he was appointed member of the National Council of PASOK. On 4 March 2013 he was elected member of the central political committee of PASOK,[4] which on its first session on 14 March 2013 elected him the new political secretary.[5]

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present

In the 2014 European Parliament election, Androulakis was elected one of two MEPs on PASOK's Elia list. He affiliates with the parliamentary group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and is member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In addition to his committee assignments, Androulakis is part of the parliament's delegation for relations with China.[6][7] He is also a member of the MEPs Against Cancer group.[8]

Androulakis won the race to lead the KINAL and PASOK over former Prime Minister George Papandreou on 12 December 2021 to succeed deceased Fofi Gennimata.[9]

Wiretapping Androulakis

In June 2022, experts notified Androulakis that, in September 2021, weeks after declaring he would be a candidate to lead PASOK, he had received a text message with a link that would have installed the spyware Predator on his phone, had he clicked on it.[10] Shortly after, he filed a complaint with Greece's Supreme Court[11] over an attempted bugging of his mobile phone with surveillance software.[12] The ensuing scandal led to the resignations of the chief of the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon, as well as the Secretary General and nephew of the Prime Minister, Grigoris Dimitriadis.[13]

References
  1. "Νίκος Ανδρουλάκης: 'Όχι' επί της αρχής στο νομοσχέδιο, 'ναι' στα άρθρα που 'στηρίζουν τους πιο ευάλωτους'". The TOC (in Greek). 2023-07-26. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  2. "Βιογραφικό".
  3. "Βιογραφικό".
  4. "PASOK's congress ends with new faces elected to party's central committee". Kathimerini. 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
  5. "SYRIZA more popular, euro less so, says latest poll of Greeks". Kathimerini. 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
  6. "Nikos Androulakis". European Parliament. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
  7. "ANDROULAKIS Nikos | Socialists & Democrats". www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  8. MAC MEPs in the 2019-24 legislature MEPs Against Cancer.
  9. Nikos Androulakis Elected New Leader of Greece’s Center-Left
  10. Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Monika Pronczuk (27 July 2022), Senior European Parliament Member Targeted as Spyware Abuse Spreads New York Times.
  11. "PM defends workings of EYP, opposition asks him to resign". eKathimerini. 2022-08-26.
  12. George Georgiopoulos (26 July 2022), Greek socialist leader files complaint over attempted phone bugging Reuters.
  13. (5 August 2022), Greek intelligence service boss quits amid wiretapping allegations Reuters.


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