A crowd of deputies entered on Friday afternoon through Maxim’s side door into a meeting that resembled a war room. Vassilis Kikilias, Adonis Georgiadis, Thanos Plevris, Dimitris Markopoulos, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Dimitris Kayrides, Kostas Karagounis, Haris Theoharis, Giorgos Amiras, Sophia Voultepsi and Zoya Rapti sat at the same table with the Prime Minister and Maximos’ staff, that is, Giorgos Gerapetritis, Akis Schertzos and liaison staff. This, according to the information, is the main group of deputies and ministers who will take on the difficult media representation of the government after the tragedy in Tempe. The same information says that the whole accident situation was analyzed and it was said that the government has arguments against it, as Yiannis Oikonomou mentioned earlier in response to Popi Tsapanida, but there is none.

During the meeting, the prime minister asked to speak more quietly and that the deputies not enter into a confrontational process, but only refer to specific facts and figures. In this context, Mitsotakis also mentioned the resigned Minister Kostas Karamanlis, repeating that his attitude does him credit and shows how he relates to politics.

However, the resignation of Kostas Karamanlis is the first in Greece in many years. And although his decision was obvious after such a tragedy, it is unusual in Greek conditions, which is a sign that it is not in the culture of our political system to take on political responsibility. The last recorded — note: resignation, not impeachment — was in 1994, when Anastasios Peponis, then Minister of Public Administration in the government of Andreas Papandreou, resigned because his colleagues undermined the public sector recruitment law, known as the “Peponis Law » (2190/1994). Then no one asked the late politician to resign, but he did it of his own free will for reasons of decency. As for the tragedies that have occurred in the country, we have not had a single resignation. In 2007, Byron Polidoras called for a “common wind”, Christos Papoucis remained at his post after the fatal shipwreck of the Samina in 2000, and Nikos Toskas, after the tragedy in Mati, took 11 days to leave his position, pushed by a general cry.

Thus, the resignation became a topic in the Turkish media, and Turkish journalists noted that despite the terrible earthquake tragedy that killed 45,000 people, not a single Turkish official resigned. And the resignation of Karamanli became an occasion for criticism of his own political system.

It is expected that within a week and after the funerals of all the dead are held, the Prime Minister will announce compensation to the relatives who lost their people. Although the information cannot be disputed, since it is a self-evident move, Maximu prefers not to start any discussions the next day until the operational part is completed and the identification of all victims is completed.

The station manager’s salary is 3,500 euros gross, which means that he receives almost 2,300 euros net, no small sum. From here, there is a strong rumor that the transfer of the deadly stationmaster was a bribe of a DAKE leader who held a high position in the GSEE.

Hellenic Train outraged everyone with their attitude. From everything that has already seen the light, I note that when he sent a carriage to the place of the tragedy to pick up the passengers who got out of the cars unharmed, he did not write down their names anywhere, as a result, the relatives who were looking for people did not immediately recognize whether they are alive and left on the bus. A source who was at the scene of the tragedy all day told the column that the company’s attitude was almost inhumane.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias was at the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Orthodoxy Sunday as a representative of the Greek government, as well as in the context of prayers in memory of the tens of thousands of earthquake victims in the south and southeast. Turkey. The Ecumenical Patriarch led the Divine Liturgy and prayer. Bartholomew. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in Istanbul last year for the same reason when he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A year later, the situation in both countries, living in the shadow of two parallel unfolding tragedies, is completely different …

Bold script by Mitsotakis

The prime minister shared with his interlocutors the bold scenario he has in mind: the next parliament should be revisionist. Mitsotakis is referring mainly to Article 16, which does not allow the operation of non-state universities, as well as changing the duties of the Council of State. However, his plan provides otherwise: as soon as the amendment is adopted, he will again go to the polls with a request for a mandate to change specific articles. The argument will be strong as it will claim that it will free the country from the institutional burden of decades and at the same time “illuminate” great differences from SYRIZA. Of course, all this was on his mind before the tragedy at Tempe. Because, as Macmillan used to say, “events, dear boy, events.” Sometimes events interfere.