“We are with our weak fellow citizens. We are with the whole society”, emphasizes Stefanos Kasselakis on the occasion of a recent visit he made to the Roma camp in Sagaiika, Achaia.

In a post on social media, which he accompanies with the relevant video of the visit, the president of SYRIZA PS states that the residents told him that no political leader has ever visited them. “For others, it’s about a dot off the map. For us, it is Greece”, he emphasizes and asks the following questions: “Are we a country that embraces all our fellow human beings? Or are we a country based on hatred and rivalry?” He notes that “every day we wake up we choose what kind of Greeks we are”: “A culture that comes from the Ottoman Empire and has a defeatism in it, a ragiadism, or are we a modern European country that embraces everyone and wants to build on the foundations of Justice ?”. Mr. Kasselakis states that “we are never going to be a perfect country, but we can have a little more unity, a little more unity, a little sympathy, support, solidarity.”

The president of SYRIZA heard the problems faced by the residents of the camp, such as, among others, problems of education and inclusion in schools, racism, abandonment. “We have asked for extra bins, we have asked for the gutters to be fixed, for sewers to be installed, for us to live in proper conditions,” they told him. Mr. Kasselakis asked if they accept racism, receiving the answer that “we are on the outside, because we are not seen, they do not look at us”. “They consider you second-class people,” he said. “Yes, maybe even the third and fourth”, they commented, with the president of SYRIZA stating that “it is a matter of value for us, it is who we are”. “We are with our weak fellow citizens. We are with the whole society. Starting with sensitivity to the layers that can’t start somewhere to see a white day,” he added. “Look now that you have come in to help, not only us, where you can, the whole world,” they told him. Among other things, they told Mr. Kasselakis that “they had opened a community center here too, which operated normally when SYRIZA was in power”, “it served a lot of people, we had a pediatrician, people went and prescribed their medicines” and that after SYRIZA left the government, shut down.