“The need for the political debate to stay away from toxicity and meaningless confrontation”, underlined the press representative of PASOK-Movement of Change, Dimitris Manzos, speaking on the program “One of the South, two of Chioti” of the radio station SKAI 100.3. “Here and many days we see top ministers, apparently on ordered duty, trying to make the whole public debate equal. It is one thing to politically discuss the state of railways and infrastructure over time and another thing to seek responsibility for specific actions or omissions”, said Mr. Mantzos, commenting in principle on what Giorgos Gerapetritis announced. He characteristically added how “we are all together in the public debate about the state and our infrastructure, but we will not all be together in the attempt to assign responsibility. As long as some obscure the message, we will never find the culprit and the person responsible.”

He argued that “no matter what each minister says, no matter what he does, the government cannot shirk its heavy responsibilities. ND and Mr. Mitsotakis to take over complete and complete the responsibility of their four years. They rule 1,332 days, 44 months and are responsible for their omissions. We say yes to debate, but no to confusion, offsetting or apportioning blame. The responsibilities will be attributed by the Justice and the people when the time of the ballot box comes,” he noted.

“The point is that the responsibilities for a tragedy should also be sought in the present. We have 3.5 years now and another 4.5 before a contract for telematics, remote control and photo-signaling at the point in question, which has received seven extensions and a cap of 13 million euros. And today, nine years later, with 54 million euros, we count 57 dead. Were there safety valves in between? No”, emphasized Mr. Manzos. The press representative of PASOK-KINAL enumerated what PASOK left in 2011 on the railway: “The organizational chart of OSE counted 2,800 fully manned positions. No one from OSE security units was ever moved. It was the only public company that entered into a collective labor agreement with its employees in the first memorandum, while the “bad PASOK” is the one that founded the Railway Regulatory Authority. PASOK took over a 10.9 billion euro OSE debt and restructured it. TRAINOSE would have been sold for 300 million and then SYRIZA came and sold it 45 million instead of a lens panel”underlined Mr. Manzos.

“Digital transformation does not mean digitization of bureaucracy. It means key security technology applications in our infrastructure. For our children to get on the trains and arrive alive”, said the PASOK-Change Movement’s press representative when asked about the digital transformation that the government has carried out.

In closing, Dimitris Manzos did not fail to mention today’s International Women’s Day saying “it is not a day of celebration, but of assertion and reminder of the need for gender equality. Especially today when next to us there are mothers mourning their children in the tragedy of Tempe. Such days we should remember all those who are on the margins and in a position of weakness, those who have been left behind. As a society we must do everything we can so that no citizen feels alone and outside the walls.”