| Michalis Chrisochoidis | |
| Native Name Lang: | el |
| Office: | Minister for Citizen Protection |
| Primeminister: | Kyriakos Mitsotakis |
| Term Start: | 4 January 2024 |
| Term Start1: | 9 July 2019 |
| Term End1: | 31 August 2021 |
| Primeminister1: | Kyriakos Mitsotakis |
| Predecessor1: | Olga Gerovasili |
| Primeminister2: | Lucas Papademos |
| Term Start2: | 7 March 2012 |
| Term End2: | 17 May 2012 |
| Predecessor2: | Christos Papoutsis |
| Successor2: | Eleftherios Oikonomou |
| Primeminister3: | George Papandreou |
| Term Start3: | 7 October 2009 |
| Term End3: | 7 September 2010 |
| Successor3: | Christos Papoutsis |
| Office4: | Minister for Health |
| Primeminister4: | Kyriakos Mitsotakis |
| Term Start4: | 27 June 2023 |
| Term End4: | 4 January 2024 |
| Successor4: | Adonis Georgiadis |
| Office5: | Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks |
| Primeminister5: | Antonis Samaras |
| Term Start5: | 25 June 2013 |
| Term End5: | 27 January 2015 |
| Office6: | Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping |
| Primeminister6: | George Papandreou Lucas Papademos |
| Term Start6: | 7 September 2010 |
| Term End6: | 7 March 2012 |
| Successor6: | Anna Diamantopoulou |
| Office7: | Minister for Public Order |
| Primeminister7: | Costas Simitis |
| Term Start7: | 19 February 1999 |
| Term End7: | 7 July 2003 |
| Predecessor7: | Filippos Petsalnikos |
| Birth Date: | 31 October 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Imathia, Greece |
| Party: | PASOK (1974–2019) Independent (2019–2022) New Democracy (since 2022) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Thessaloniki |
Michalis Chrisochoidis (born 31 October 1955)[1] 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 previously served in the same role on four separate 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).
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. 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,[2] and six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle were arrested in 2010.[3]
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.[4]