Giannis Ragousis, was a member of the Rectors Council, as well as the F.E.A.P.TH. from 1986, until 1989. From 1991 to 1993 he was the Secretary of PA.S.P., the youth division of the
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), as well as a member of the Central Council of the National Students Union of Greece (E.F.E.E.). Giannis Ragousis was a member of the Central Committee of PASOK from 1994 until 1996. In 2003, he was elected Mayor of
Paros, a post he held until 2007. He was first
elected to the
Hellenic Parliament on 16 September 2007, having been appointed party spokesman on 15 August. After the
2009 election,
George Papandreou made Ragousis his
Minister for the Interior, Decentralization and e-Governance. He kept the post until a cabinet reshuffle on 17 June 2011, when he was appointed
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks. On 11 November 2011, he became the Alternate Minister for National Defence in the
national unity government of
Lucas Papademos. He challenged
Fofi Gennimata as leader of
Movement for Change after the dissolution of
Panhellenic Socialist Movement, before becoming a candidate of
SYRIZA for the
2019 Greek legislative election. ==Personal life==