{{short description|Greek politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Michalis Chrisochoidis | native_name = {{nobold|Μιχάλης Χρυσοχοΐδης}} | native_name_lang = el | image = Rhodes Forum 2014 (15261610954).jpg | caption = Chrisochoidis in 2014 | office = Minister for Citizen Protection | prime_minister = Kyriakos Mitsotakis | term_start = 4 January 2024 | predecessor = {{interlanguage link|Giannis Oikonomou|el|Γιάννης Δ. Οικονόμου}} | term_start1 = 9 July 2019 | term_end1 = 31 August 2021 | prime_minister1 = Kyriakos Mitsotakis | predecessor1 = Olga Gerovasili | successor1 = {{interlanguage link|Takis Theodorikakos|el|Τάκης Θεοδωρικάκος}} | prime_minister2 = Lucas Papademos | term_start2 = 7 March 2012 | term_end2 = 17 May 2012 | predecessor2 = Christos Papoutsis | successor2 = Eleftherios Oikonomou | prime_minister3 = George Papandreou | term_start3 = 7 October 2009 | term_end3 = 7 September 2010 | predecessor3 = Spyridon Flogaitis {{small|(Interior)}} | successor3 = Christos Papoutsis | office4 = Minister for Health | prime_minister4 = Kyriakos Mitsotakis | term_start4 = 27 June 2023 | term_end4 = 4 January 2024 | predecessor4 = {{interlanguage link|Anastasia Kotanidou|el|Αναστασία Κοτανίδου}} | successor4 = Adonis Georgiadis | office5 = Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks | prime_minister5 = Antonis Samaras | term_start5 = 25 June 2013 | term_end5 = 27 January 2015 | predecessor5 = Kostis Hatzidakis {{small|(Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks)}} | successor5 = Giorgos Stathakis {{small|(Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism)}} | office6 = Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping | prime_minister6 = George Papandreou<br>Lucas Papademos | term_start6 = 7 September 2010 | term_end6 = 7 March 2012 | predecessor6 = Louka Katseli {{small|(Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping)}} | successor6 = Anna Diamantopoulou | office7 = Minister for Public Order | prime_minister7 = Costas Simitis | term_start7 = 19 February 1999 | term_end7 = 7 July 2003 | predecessor7 = Filippos Petsalnikos | successor7 = Giorgos Floridis | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|10|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Imathia, Greece | party = PASOK (1974–2019)<br />Independent (2019–2022)<br />New Democracy (since 2022) | alma_mater = University of Thessaloniki | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''Michalis Chrisochoidis''' ({{Langx|el|Μιχάλης Χρυσοχοΐδης}}, born 31 October 1955)<ref name="enet bio">{{cite web|title=Μιχάλης Χρυσοχοΐδης|url=http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=89142|publisher=enet.gr|accessdate=5 June 2010|language=Greek|date=2009-10-07}}</ref> is a Greek politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B2 constituency with New Democracy. He currently serves as Minister for Citizen Protection in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He had served in the same role on four occasions (1999–2003, 2009–2010, 2012 and 2019–2021), as a member of PASOK and an independent politician. He has also served as Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (2010), Minister for Regional Development and Competitiveness (2010–2011), Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping (2011–2012), Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2013–2015) and Minister for Health (2023–2024).
== Life == Michalis Chrisochoidis was born on 31 October 1955, in the village of Nisi near Alexandreia in Imathia, Greece.
He graduated from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.<ref name="enet bio" /> He started practicing law as an attorney in Veria in 1981.
In 1974, Chrisochoidis joined PASOK. Ηe served as prefect of Karditsa prefecture from 1987 to 1989. From June 1989 until PASOK's electoral collapse due to the Greek government-debt crisis, he was elected to parliament at every election, initially for Imathia (1989–2004) and from 2007 for the Athens B constituency. He failed to be returned to parliament at the January 2015 election.
Chrisochoidis was first appointed to government as the Deputy Minister for Trade (1994–1996). He subsequently served as Deputy Minister for Development (1996–1999), Minister for Public Order (1999–2003) and Minister for Citizen Protection (2009–2010). In September 2010, he was appointed Minister for Regional Development and Competitiveness. On 27 June 2011, the ministry merged with the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries to form the Ministry of Development, Competitiveness and Shipping.
During his time at the Ministry of Public Order, the Revolutionary Organization 17 November, a major Greek urban guerrilla or terrorist group was dismantled in 2002,<ref name="americanchronicle.com">{{cite web|last=Mottas|first=Nicolas |title=Greece's 'terrorist hunter' launches war against crime|url=http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/126274|publisher=americanchronicle.com|accessdate=5 June 2010}}</ref> and six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle were arrested in 2010.<ref name="AthensNews RevolutionaryStruggle">{{cite journal|last=Gilson|first=George|title=Cracking Revolutionary Struggle|journal=Athens News|date=2010-04-18|issue=13386|pages=9|url=http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13386/21715|accessdate=20 May 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128055351/http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13386/21715|archivedate=28 November 2012}}</ref>
In 1995, Chrisochoidis was appointed to the secretariat of the Party of European Socialists.
On 9 July 2019, Chrisochoidis was appointed Minister for Citizen Protection in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and was consequently expelled from PASOK and the Movement for Change.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/07/09/michalis-chrisochoidis-greeces-terrorist-hunter-returns-to-center-stage/|title=Michalis Chrisochoidis, Greece's "Terrorist Hunter", Returns to Center Stage {{!}} GreekReporter.com|last=Kokkinidis|first=Tasos|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-07}}</ref>
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