 He served on the Permanent Committees of Economic Affairs, Internal–Public Administration, and Educational Affairs.He ran unsuccessfully for a parliamentary seat in the 2000 election.He returned to local politics and in October 2002 was elected Prefect of Eastern Attica (50.1%)—himself resident of [Pikermi] for 30 years—and for a second term in the 2006 election (54.6%), in which however he exacerbated building disorder in the district by expeditiously legalising thousands of illegally constructed acres of land.