“The KKE, as is self-evident and as it always does with its own reasoning, votes for the motion of censure submitted to the ND government. However, it doesn’t stop there. We submit to the Parliament the censure that we submit every day together with the people, the youth, the labor-popular movement in the struggles that are developing against the policy of this government and its consequences”, said the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, in today’s his speech in Parliament.

“Criticism of the Mitsotakis government, and not just one, but many criticisms,” he noted. He explained that “the censure of the KKE concerns the crime of Tempe and the miserable attempt to cover it up. Also, the KKE criticizes the government for involving the country more deeply in the imperialist war in Ukraine, for sending the frigate “Hydra” into the wolf’s mouth, for placing the burden of accuracy on the people, and for the crime that is going to committed in LARCO, for the law – an exception for private Universities, for the further commercialization of Health, for the policy in agricultural production”.

“Criticism for all your politics from beginning to end and in addition for your arrogance, the entanglement, the scandals and the cover-up of responsibilities that you attempt,” said D. Koutsoubas.

Referring specifically to the Tempe tragedy, he said “a rebuke to the Tempe crime and the vile, disgusting, despicable attempt to cover it up,” he said, and spoke of “a cover-up since the government ran to cover up the crime scene and set up – or whoever he did – the materials of the conversations, just to reinforce the purely human error narrative and say that only one stationmaster is to blame.”

“You wanted to hide the policy that puts profit above the safety and lives of people, a policy that you and previous governments have served, a policy that is followed in all capitalist countries, even the most developed,” he noted. addressing the government and other parties.

He said that the government also made a cover-up during the work of the Commission of Inquiry by refusing to summon important witnesses, gradually closing its work, while the case file had been forwarded by the Justice, and with the “finding of shame, the manual of the cover-up that you filed yourself and where you do not find any criminal and civil responsibility for the crime”.

He noted that in addition to the cover-up tactic, there is also the “cover-up law” the infamous “ministerial responsibility” law that allows Mr. Karamanlis and others not to be tried by the Justice, like every citizen in this country, while they have lawsuits filed against them by the relatives of the victims”.

He recalled that when the KKE proposed in the last constitutional review to abolish Article 86 of the Constitution, all the other parties rejected the proposal “because everyone wants to protect their own ministers”.

He added that “both the government and the consensus opposition exonerate the politics that led to the crime.”

Mr. Koutsoubas, addressing PASOK, said that “he speaks negatively about the Commission of Inquiry because it investigated responsibilities since 1997 when the process of “liberation” of railway transport and the fragmentation of OSE began” and pointed out, among other things, that PASOK’s position “from at the first moment it was to check Mr. Karamanlis and Spirtzis only for the economic damage they did to the EU and not for the crime, as if this is what burns the relatives and the world regarding Tempi. If the EU was financially damaged”.

He underlined that “obviously today the government is more constrained and this is due to the struggle of the relatives of the victims and the popular pressure and the Commission of Inquiry and the great, emblematic moment of the general strike on February 28, exactly one year after the crime, which you of PASOK with your trade union leadership in GSEE did everything to undermine it and failed miserably”.

Mr. Koutsoubas emphasized that against the policy of the ND government, the KKE “does not recognize any oppositional role in the group of parties of the sinful and fallen social democracy, that is, in the “group” of PASOK, SYRIZA, the New Left, of Freedom of Navigation who submitted the specific proposal”.

“We recognize the real oppositional role only in the Greek people themselves and the youth, in their movement and their bodies. They are the ones who daily file the only effective, substantial, genuine and honest criticism. She is the only one who has a real backlash, because she is the only one who has already managed to squeeze the government and tomorrow we are sure she will squeeze it even more. That’s where we put all our strength,” he said, noting that the social democratic parties are absent from this popular censure in the best case, while in the most common case it is “exactly opposite because your political line, on the basic issues, is the same or similar to that of the ND”.

He referred, among other things, to the “monumental proposal for international observers in the next elections that will save us from fraud”, noting that he “gave a pass to the government of Mr. Mitsotakis to divert the debate from a motion of no confidence and what it concerns, on whether and who disputes the election result”.

“We don’t know what to say anymore… The only thing that is certain is that if Mr. Kasselakis didn’t exist, then Mr. Mitsotakis would definitely have to invent him…” he said characteristically.

He also noted that SYRIZA and PASOK voted in favor of the government’s bill on postal voting in the Parliament Committee, despite the KKE’s warnings about the risk of handing over personal data, while in the end “for other reasons, of course, and after you had become a bukino, you changed the your vote in the Plenary”.

He recalled that they also rejected the KKE’s proposal “that the leadership of the Judiciary should not be appointed by the respective governments, that is, that it should not be directly controlled by them, but should be elected by the body of judges, as they also request”.

He said that from the motion of no confidence, the social democratic parties are “trying to gain political benefits for who will have the upper hand in this area”, while the ND government is “seizing the opportunity to bring back the false dilemma of stability or instability. To blackmail the people in the run-up to the European elections, in order to avoid their punitive vote which, it seems, many of those who gave her that infamous 41% last summer have decided to give her.

Noting that “the government will not succeed” as “popular discontent will grow even stronger”, D. Koutsoubas underlined, concluding his speech:

“The only way for it to really take hold is by voting for the KKE. To the only real, strategic opponent of this government. This rotten system fears this vote, the ND government fears this vote, because it is the only vote that questions all its basic choices.

The only one that will become a force on the road, in the places of work and education, in the struggles of our people, that can squeeze them, that our people achieve victories, and that our youth, finally open a radically different way to get out of today’s impasses. We will be there. On this road, on the road of struggle for a real, radical change”.