“I have taken a position and insist that we must protect the rights of all our citizens and especially vulnerable children“said Mr. Kairides regarding the issue of same-sex marriage in anticipation of Kyriakos Mitsotak’s statements, on the SKAI show, Mismatches.
Among other things, the Minister of Immigration said that there must be a battle with arguments in Greek society in the part that is reacting.

“We are not creating a new reality but we are facing a reality in the context of equalityhe emphasized.

Regarding the reactions of government ministers, the minister said that “There will not be an internal party problem” while responding to the objections expressed by Mr. Voridis, Mr. Kairidis emphasized that “you cannot sign a bill and you vote against, said it himself, who is a very good jurist.”

Regarding the reactions of the entire parliamentary group, the Minister of Immigration stated that “the parliamentary group is reacting justifiably because it represents the Greek people”.
Regarding the issue of the legalization of immigrant workers, Mr. Kairides said “the need for labor is a “pleasant” problem for Greece because in previous years we had exported workers from the country.”

“Thousands of Albanians left during the pandemic because of this and we have a shortage of land workers,” he stressed.

“It is a problem on two fronts with one being with the bilateral agreements with Moldova, agriculture and India, countries where the prime minister will also go to India and they will be ratified by March.”

“The second one regarding implementation is more complicated because the administrative mechanism regarding legal immigration suffers because a legal immigrant who wants to renew his residence permit needs three years,” he pointed out.

“The problem is focused on the administrative part as the system needs to be homogenized and digitized.”

“There is a coordination with the Ministry of Interior. Greece has a success in the Asylum service that we created in 2012. The illegal who comes to Greece gets an answer to his request very quickly, while the legal one waits three years. This is a paradox,” Mr. Kairides added.

Referring to the meeting with the European Commissioner for Migration, Mr. Kairides said that it went very well, we are receiving funds and we are already receiving from the grant, but also from the new allocation of resources amounting to 2 billion that will be made.

At the same time, Mr. Kairides said that Greece is sending a message with its immigration policy at this time to Europe with the balance of reason and justice.