The government representative issued a scathing announcement about the article on the front page of the “Vima tis Kyriakis” newspaper. THE Pavlos Marinakis refers to an attempt to “destabilize the country” with “the tragedy of Tempe” and speaks of “slanderers-grave diggers” and added that the proposal of censure by the Nikos Androulakis“if deposited”.

The statement in more detail:

Today’s front page of “Vima tis Kyriaki” and its automatic acceptance by the opposition almost at the same time as its publication says a lot. This development, in fact, becomes even more revealing with PASOK’s proposal, a little later, for a joint motion of no confidence in the Government.

The masks have fallen! And now it is becoming clear that this anti-government campaign, spearheaded by a national tragedy and its vehicle by the cynical exploitation of pain, was only part of the effort to destabilize the country itself. A campaign where, in fact, the most diverse political forces participate.

The President of PASOK-KINAL Mr. Nikos Androulakis hastened to immediately adopt the propaganda of a publication with non-existent facts, which received an immediate response. He, however, preferred to turn his party into a green version of SYRIZA. In line with Mr. Velopoulos. And in aid of the “Spartans”.

Let’s take things in order first:

1. Everyone agrees, even the slanderers, that Justice has the entire material of the dialogues before the accident for its investigation. No one doubts that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations of ELAS forwarded to the investigative authorities the complete set of audio recordings of the OSE. So, no question of tampering with the judicial inquiry arises.

2.⁠ Is the supposed revelation of today’s STEP so “big” that a series of media outlets, including the public ERT, but also the site of the same grouphave mentioned it since March 2, 2023. And in this material the dialogues include, of course, all the persons who were conversing..

3.⁠ In any case, all the evidence that has already been made public, as well as the confession of the fatal Station Master himself, lead to the unshakable conclusion of human error. Together, of course, with a chain of violations of the Security Regulation and any other negligences investigated by the Court.

So what do the slanderers-gravediggers claim now? Are they questioning, for the first time in a year, even the acknowledged human error? Do they want to say that there is no natural cause for the accident and that only the government is “generally” to blame?

This vulgar attempt will fail. Much more so as all citizens now find that in this war of attrition of the elected government, organized financial interests are also taking part. Interests that want to make her hostage to their own designs. They are in vain!

The country will not return to times of uncertainty and blackmail by powerful interests and party expedients. Welcomed, therefore, the proposal of Mr. Androulakis if submitted. It is the best opportunity for the Greeks to find out who is aligned with normality, stability and continuity and who wants to undermine the country’s path to progress.