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, which on its first session on 14 March 2013 elected him as its new secretary.
Member of the European Parliament, (2014–2023) In the
2014 European Parliament election, Androulakis was elected as one of two MEPs on PASOK's
Elia list. He was affiliated with the parliamentary group of the
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and was a member of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, Androulakis was part of the parliament's delegation for relations with
China. He was also a member of the
MEPs Against Cancer group. Androulakis won the
race to lead KINAL and PASOK over former Prime Minister
George Papandreou on 12 December 2021 to succeed deceased
Fofi Gennimata.
Attempt of wiretapping Androulakis In June 2022, experts notified Androulakis that, in September 2021, weeks after declaring that he would be a candidate to possibly lead PASOK, he had received a text message with a link that would have installed the
spyware,
Predator, had he tapped on the link on his phone. 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),
Panagiotis Kontoleon, as well as the Secretary General and nephew of the Prime Minister,
Grigoris Dimitriadis.
Stagnation and proceeding leadership election After the stagnation of
PASOK – KINAL in the
2024 European Parliament elections and the failure to become the official opposition to
Mitsotakis'
New Democracy, several members of his party, including former
Minister for Culture and Tourism Pavlos Geroulanos and current
Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas, along with others, set their goals on competing for leadership in the
2024 PASOK – KINAL leadership election taking place on 6 October 2024. ==References==