section_path: Parliamentary career (2000–2025)
section_name: Parliamentary career (2000–2025)
paragraph_text: Parliamentary career (2000–2025)
  
  In 2000, he was elected MP for Ioannina, a position he held through all subsequent elections continuously. In 2006, he was appointed parliamentary representative of the New Democracy party, of which, in 2010, he assumed the position of General Secretary. In 2007, he served as Defense Deputy Minister, while, in the period 2014-15, as Minister for Sports and Culture.