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.

Michalis Chrisochoidis was born on 31 October 1955, in the village of Nisi near Alexandreia in Imathia, Greece.

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.

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.