[1] Finishing second, he reached the second round of the election, but then lost to incumbent Giorgos Kaminis.

[2] On his third attempt, Sakellaridis, placed on second position in the Athens A constituency, won a seat in the January 2015 legislative elections.

He had before contested the consecutive May and June elections from unpromising positions in the Athens B constituency.

Reelected in the subsequent September 2015 snap election, Sakellaridis however wasn't reappointed to Tsipras' second cabinet.

On 19 November 2015, Sakellaridis, who was a member of Syriza's moderately leftist "53+" faction, resigned from his parliamentary seat because he could no longer support the bailout and therefore couldn't "contribute to the implementation of government policies."