Background
Voulgarakis was born in Crete and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Marketing and Communication from the University of Athens.
Voulgarakis was born in Crete and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Marketing and Communication from the University of Athens.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He has been elected to parliament from the Athens A" Election Area constituency since the June 1989 parliamentary election and served as Deputy Minister for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Public Works from 3 December 1992 to 12 October 1993. He was Minister of Public Order in the government of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis from 10 March 2004, at the difficult period of Athens Olympic Games 2004, until a cabinet reshuffle on 14 February 2006, when he was named Minister of Culture instead. This was considered a demotion in the wake of a phone-tapping scandal.
A Greek prosecutor has backed claims by a group of Pakistani men that they were abducted by Greek and British intelligence agents in the wake of the London bombings.
Georgios Voulgarakis denied any involvement but main opposition party Panellinion Socialistikon Kinema (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) and Human Rights Groups called for the resignation of Voulgarakis from his cabinet position. On May 30, 2006, Voulgarakis survived a bombing.
A far-left Greek terrorist group, Revolutionary Struggle, placed over two pounds of explosives strapped to a bicycle near his residence, and then detonated the device by remote control. Number injuries resulted from the explosion, but four parked cars and a school building were damaged.
lieutenant is unclear whether this was an attempted assassination.
One of the biggest successes was the hiring of a part of the port of Piraeus to the China"s Cosco Pacific.
He is a member of the New Democracy party. Following New Democracy"s victory in the September 2007 parliamentary election, Voulgarakis was moved from his position as Minister for Culture to become Minister of Mercantile Marine, Aegean Sea and Island Policy in the Cabinet sworn in on 19 September 2007. After 2 years legal research, the Greek Parliament and particularly Voulgarakis’ political opponents (Panellinion Socialistikon Kinema (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) party) acquitted him to involvement to this case (November 2010).