The government will ask for a debate on the fires in Parliament in September on the basis of facts and real data, and not with political buzzwords, government circles point out, after Nikos Androulakis’ request for a pre-scheduled debate in the Parliament on the matter.

“Like every year, this year the government will ask for a debate in the Parliament in September, once the tension and pressure from the August fires has passed and the fire prevention season is coming to an end, so that the relevant account. Discussion which will be based on evidence and real data, and not with political buzzwords” government circles reported characteristically.

PASOK President Nikos Androulakis submitted a request for a pre-scheduled debate in the Parliament on the catastrophic fires that hit Attica earlier on Wednesday in a letter to the President of the Parliament Konstantinos Tasoula

“For one more year, our country was faced with devastating fires even a few kilometers from the center of Athens with a tragic outcome. One woman lost her life, tens of thousands of acres of burnt land, huge ecological disaster, loss of property for hundreds of our fellow citizens” notes Nikos Androulakis.

“The big fires of the previous years, especially last year, where more than 1,747,730 acres were reduced to ashes with their devastating effects on the natural environment of the country and our fellow citizens, proved to have taught nothing to the Government of the New Democracy. The state apparatus proved to be unjustifiably unprepared again this year. The fire reached inside Athens, leading to loss of life, destroying residences, businesses and burning one of the remaining green lungs of Attica, further burdening the quality of air and life in the closed city” emphasizes the president of PASOK.