“Once again, we are not spectators of the same work, but spectators of the same crime,” he said, among other things, in his intervention Thanasis Pafiliswho spoke in the Parliament debate on behalf of the KKE, due to the extraordinary illness of the party’s general manager, Dimitris Koutsouba.

The parliamentary representative of the KKE stated that it turned out that the government has no plan to prevent or deal with the fires. “We are not accusing you of incompetence but of being conscious and capable implementers of this criminal policy that allows private individuals to exploit the forests,” said Mr. Pafilis.

He spoke about the excuses of the government, SYRIZA and PASOK, attributing eternal responsibilities to the previous governments, culminating in the transfer of forest firefighting from the Forest Service to the Fire Brigade, in 1998 during the Simitis government.

Thanasis Pafilis, in his severe criticism, spoke of an unscientific policy that has been followed for many years, which enables the government to commission forest reconstruction studies to private individuals and not to foresters. “PASOK, SYRIZA and the current ND government maintain this approach to forests. There is another path, the scientific approach, proposed by the KKE” underlined the parliamentary representative of the party.

He even asked Mr. Mitsotakis and the other parties to agree to the cancellation of this decision and to return the responsibilities to the forest offices with the recruitment of 2,000 foresters and firefighters, as many gaps as there are.

He pointed out, formulating questions, the geostrategic importance of Evros in the planning of NATO while praising the contribution of members and executives of the KKE who organized together with citizens and workers contributed to extinguishing the fire in several places.