The debate on the no-confidence motion against the government continues today, Wednesday, in the plenary session of the Parliament, with Tempi at the forefront.
The opposition agreed to reprimand the government, not just for the train crash, but for “gross violations” of the rule of law more generally, with the first day of debate yesterday being held in high spirits and ending at 3.30am.
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The climate was already electrified when the proposal was submitted, with Nikos Androulakis accusing the governing majority of being capable of anything in order to “keep her chair” and Makis Voridis raising the gauntlet and directly accusing his president PASOK as “representative of certain publishing interests”, clarifying that the proposal is welcome.
Fierce fight
The Minister of State accused the opposition of trying to consolidate the motion of no confidence against the government with “absurdities, lies, slander, slander, irrelevant connections, suspicions and insinuations”. “That’s your policy,” he pointed out.
Earlier, submitting the motion of no confidence, Mr. Androulakis launched a fierce attack against the government, which “has made a habit of systematically undermining the rule of law in our country. In a series of scandals we experience the same pattern: “Corruption, cover-up, impunity”.
Continuing the attack on the government, he characterized the concealment of its truth as a “political choice”, which together with “impunity and cover-up, damage the credibility of institutions, discrediting politics in the eyes of society”.
The high tones
His rapporteur SYRIZA, Nikos Pappas, accused the government that “the cover-up is your first nature”, talking about a cover-up, a cover-up and editing of the train accident.
“I saw the rapporteur in a motion of no confidence concerning the Rule of Law and among others the issue of media manipulation, Mr. Pappa… Mr. Pappa! Out of everyone, you chose Mr. Pappa. It’s a pity that Mr. Papagelopoulos has not been elected to be your second choice and to complete the set of the rule of law”, commented Makis Voridis decisively.
“Elections are the solution,” Nikos Pappas pointed out, adding: “And of course with observers, who will be informed in advance that voter data has been extracted and used by the party that was in government.” .
“They have opened their mouths. You had a goal. The privatization of the railway infrastructure. A few days before the accident, Mr. Karamanlis had announced that you were preparing three PPPs for the maintenance of the line. We charge you with willfully abandoning the railway. And when the accident happened, you put forward a double strategy: messing-up and editing,” he said.
Fire team
On her part, his deputy PASOK Milena Apostolaki directly accused the government of “organized and systematic cover-up of the crime of Tempe” and “building the narrative of human error”.
“In the attempt to cover up the truth about the Tempe tragedy, new data have been added in the last few days, which prove that the fatal station master’s conversations with train drivers in Larissa, on the night of the fatal tragedy, have been tampered with, in order to magnify the government’s narrative about the human error, as the sole cause of the conflict and to downgrade the existing government responsibilities, regarding the state of the railway network”, she added.
“You are suffering in vain, your attempt to cover up is revealing”, emphasized his parliamentary representative KKE, Thanasis Pafilis. “You want to “oil” the politics of profits”, he said and made it clear that the KKE criticizes it every day, organizing the people’s struggles and that it will vote against the government with its own reasoning, not only for the crime of Tempe, but for its unified policy. At the same time, Thanasis Pafilis reminded that the KKE proposed the abolition of the law on the responsibility of ministers, but no one supported the proposal.
The leaders
The position of Kasselakis for “resignation of the government and elections” was repeated by Sokratis Famellos with his statement in the peristyle. He emphasized that “Mr. Mitsotakis must come to the Parliament which he discredited in the debate on the investigation of Tempe, insulting the memory of the victims and society.
To come and apologize:
- For the responsibilities of Messrs. Karamanlis and Karagianni, who were aware of all the deficits of the railway network with all the available institutional means and warnings,
– For the riot in Tempi and the destruction of convictions, but also the responsibilities of Mr. Triandopoulos,
– For the editing of Tempes and the falsification of audio documents, with the obvious aim of misinforming and manipulating public opinion”.
The three-day debate of the motion of no confidence in the Plenary will conclude with the positions of the political leaders (in reverse order of the parliamentary strength of the parties) and will close with the speech of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
It is noted that due to his long-planned visit to Cyprus, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, will speak in Parliament about the impeachment motion today, March 27.