section_path: Early political career
section_name: Early political career
paragraph_text: Early political career
  
  Joining the New Democracy party from early on, he served from 1981 until 1990 as special secretary of veteran politician Evangelos Averoff 's office. In 1990, he was elected at the municipal council οf the Kifissia borough of Athens, of which, in 1994, he was elected mayor.
  
  In 1990, he was appointed head of the Organization of Export Support, where he served until 1993.