Responses to his critics after the uproar created over his reference to possessions of Cyprus as “their state” gives through Facebook The Stefanos Kasselakisleaving clear points for SYRIZA officials, while giving the stamp of his positions on foreign policy, saying that “I am treading on the political legacy of Andreas Papandreou and Alexis Tsipras”.

Stefanos Kasselakis answers about his Greek, about the patriotic modern left, about the Greek-Turkish language and his positions on major political issues.

His post in more detail:

I am responding to the worst written after my verbal rant.
All here.
In front of you, directly.

👉”It’s not his fault that he doesn’t know Greek well, he’s irrelevant”
I have written many times in the American press about our national issues and our national rights.
Unfortunately in English the relevant terminology is completely different.
I am not perfect, like those who made the Katrougalu law.

👉”How is he going to represent us internationally?”
In English, it is the answer.
Until my Greek becomes like my English, in English.
Are you saying they don’t speak them abroad?

👉”To tell us what he stands for in foreign policy”
The positions of a patriotic modern Left, with the legacy left by the SYRIZA government.
Defense of national sovereignty and sovereign rights of the country against any threat.
Dialogue with neighbours, only for continental shelf/EEZ delimitation at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, with specific red lines:
-no demilitarization of the islands
-no joint exploitation before the EEZ is demarcated
-no divestiture of our sovereign right to extend our territorial waters to 12 nautical miles.

👉”He revealed his agenda, he is not a patriot”
I revealed that… in Greek I want a job.
I follow the political legacy of Andreas Papandreou and Alexis Tsipras in foreign policy and in our national issues.
I don’t have any MP on my side who considers the Muslim minority to be Turkish.
I have no member of Parliament on my side who believes that there was no genocide of the Pontians.
Questions about patriotism elsewhere, not me.