[2] He has worked in the tourism industry and as a civil engineer, he also gave courses in the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education.

[8] Androulakis won the race to lead KINAL and PASOK over former Prime Minister George Papandreou on 12 December 2021 to succeed deceased Fofi Gennimata.

[10] Shortly after, he filed a complaint with Greece's Supreme Court,[11] over an attempted bugging of his mobile phone with surveillance software.

[12] The ensuing scandal led to the resignations of the chief of the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon, as well as the Secretary General and nephew of the Prime Minister, Grigoris Dimitriadis.

[13] After the stagnation of PASOK – KINAL in the 2024 European Parliament elections and the failure to become the official opposition to Mitsotakis' New Democracy, several members of his party, including former Minister for Culture and Tourism Pavlos Geroulanos and current Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas, along with others, set their goals on competing for leadership in the 2024 PASOK – KINAL leadership election taking place on 6 October 2024.