2024-03-29 17:34:02
159 out of 300 members of parliament voted against expressing no confidence in the government, while 141 members voted for it.
The conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakas has a majority in parliament and was expected to survive a no-confidence vote proposed by the socialist PASOK party on Tuesday.
In February 2023, 57 people died in a collision between a freight train and a passenger train near the tunnel near the city of Larisa.
The no-confidence vote was prompted by a newspaper report alleging that an important audio recording from the night of the disaster had been misleadingly edited and then released to pro-government media.
The opposition parties accused the government of trying to reinforce its preferred version that the collision was caused by human error by manipulating the investigation.
“Public opinion has come to an irrevocable conclusion – that you have intended to cover up this train tragedy,” Nick Papp, the leader of the main opposition party SYRIZA, said in parliament on Wednesday.
Critics pointed out that Mitsotakis announced in a state of the nation address a few hours after the disaster that “everything” points to human error.
2024-03-29 17:34:02