Nikos Androulakis ( el, Νίκος Ανδρουλάκης; born 7 February 1979) is a Greek politician and president of the

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(KINAL) and the

Panhellenic Socialist Movement The Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012, it ...

(PASOK) since 2021. In 2014 and in 2019 he was elected as a

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(MEP).

Early life and career

Born 1979 in

Heraklion Heraklion or Iraklion ( ; el, Ηράκλειο, , ) is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit. It is the fourth largest city in Greece with a population of 211,370 (Urban Ar ...

, Androulakis studied

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at the

Democritus University of Thrace The Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH; el, Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης), established in July 1973, is based in Komotini, Greece and has campuses in the Thracian cities of Xanthi, Komotini, Alexandroupoli and O ...

, from where he also received a MSc in "New Materials and Environment". He has worked in the tourism industry and as a civil engineer, he also gave courses in the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education.

Political career

Career in national politics

In 2001 Androulakis became a member of the Central Council of

PASOK Youth PASOK Youth ( el, Νεολαία ΠΑΣΟΚ, translit. Neolaia PASOK) is the youth organization of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party of Greece. The parent party's ideology is social democracy Social democracy is a poli ...

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, which on its first session on 14 March 2013 elected him the new political secretary.

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present

In the 2014 European Parliament election, Androulakis was elected one of two MEPs on PASOK's

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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

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. He is also a member of the

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group. Androulakis won the race to lead the KINAL and PASOK over former Prime Minister

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on 12 December 2021 to succeed deceased

Fofi Gennimata Fotini "Fofi" Gennimata ( ; 17 November 1964 – 25 October 2021) was a Greek politician who served as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) from 2015 to 2021. During her tenure as party leader, she also co-founded and led the ...

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

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''Predator'' on his phone, had he clicked on it. Shortly after, he filed a complaint with Greece's Supreme Court over an attempted bugging of his mobile phone with surveillance software. The ensuing scandal led to the resignations of the chief of the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP),

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, as well as the Secretary General and nephew of the Prime Minister,

Grigoris Dimitriadis Grigorios or Gregorios ( el, Γρηγόριος “watchful; alert; awake”, from ''ἐγρήγορᾰ'' ), and the variant Grigoris (Γρηγόρης), are the Greek forms of the name Gregory. It can refer to: * Grigoris (catholicos), 4th-centu ...

.(5 August 2022)
Greek intelligence service boss quits amid wiretapping allegations
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References

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Member profile
on the website of the S&D parliamentary group * 1979 births Living people Politicians from Heraklion Democritus University of Thrace alumni Leaders of PASOK PASOK MEPs MEPs for Greece 2014–2019 MEPs for Greece 2019–2024 {{Greece-MEP-stub 21st-century Greek politicians Greek civil engineers