He has been rewarded in 1998 by the Greek Association of Literature Interpreters for his work on The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats.
In 2012 his party appointed him a member of the Special Permanent Committee on Institutions and Transparency.
When soon August 2012 reports surfaced that Polydoras, who held the position of speaker of the parliament for just a single day, hired his daughter, Margarita, and made her a permanent employee in his office.
[4] Following the incident, he was expelled from his party's parliamentary faction, but refused to give up his seat on the Institutions and Transparency committee.
In 2014, he founded the party Union for the Homeland and the People in order to take part in 2014 European Parliament Elections.