He expressed his intention to assume his share of responsibility the president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras in an interview he gave to the Mega news bulletin.

Starting the interview with the tragedy in Tempi and being asked about the responsibilities of the SYRIZA government for the situation on the railways during the period of its government, Al. Tsipras said: “I have not quarreled with the responsibility. I assumed it and I assume the responsibility, but the one that belongs to me”.

Specifically, he pointed out that the SYRIZA government assumed “responsibility” at “critical moments” for “cases that did not even concern their own actions”. “In 2015, I assumed the responsibility of not leading the country to bankruptcy and I was the target of criticism that I did a backflip. I later took responsibility to do what I considered to be in the patriotic interest of the country and found myself the target of criticism for the Prespa agreement. I also took responsibility for tragedies that I also experienced with loss of human life that were not man-made, natural disasters but I found myself in responsibility and I took it,” he said, arguing that in Tempe we had “a tragic event that should not have happened” .

“It is unthinkable, There is no excuse. For 12 minutes, two trains were moving in the opposite direction, on the same line while there is a double line,” he added, commenting that the “finding” of the average citizen is that the “state that is set up the way it is set up does not offer basic security to Greek citizen”.

“We ruled for four years, one of the most difficult with the memoranda. We didn’t build this unmeritorious, clientelistic, corrupt, inefficient state. But we have the responsibility to correct it”, he stressed.