IN parliamentin the coming days, a new chapter of the substantive discussion of the tragedy in Tempe is expected to open, as it was decided to call for hearings Committee on Institutions and Transparency persons who, from their positions in the management of the Ministry of Transport, as well as in the administration of entities related to railways, consider it necessary to provide information about a fatal accident. However, as expected, the resumption of parliamentary sessions from yesterday, after the interruption of three days of nationwide mourning, is marked by both the launch of quick legislative procedures and the high tone of the confrontation between the government and the opposition over the causes and responsibility for the tragedy.

The adoption of the decision on the extraordinary convocation of the Committee on Institutions, as well as the planning of the work of the national delegation for the current and next week, took place at yesterday’s conference of presidents.

Firstly, there was a written request from Sofia Sakorafy, one of the vice-presidents of the parliament and a member of MeRA25, to hold a joint meeting of the Committee on Institutions and the Committee on Public Enterprises, Banks, Public Benefit Organizations. and social security agencies. “Since over the past few years there have been alarming signals from many quarters about various aspects of the completely problematic state of railway transport in our country, we consider it necessary to immediately convene a meeting of our committees before Wednesday. March 8 to resolve issues in the presence of the President and Managing Director of OSE SA and the competent supervising Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. The president of the Railway Regulatory Authority should be invited to this particular meeting, as well as representatives of the OSE Machinists’ Union, the Panhellenic Federation of Railways and the OSE Panhellenic Union of Stationmasters,” says Ms. Sakorafa. All parties agreed, with SYRIZA reportedly additionally requesting that the resigned Minister K. Karamanlis and a representative of Hellenic Train be present at the meeting.

Until the end of next week, a number of bills are expected to be passed, which are considered prerequisites for the payment of funds from the Recovery Fund.

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In terms of legislative work, the programs under discussion cover the period until the end of next week, including those bills whose approval is considered a necessary condition for disbursement of funds from the Recovery Fund. The timetable under consideration, while the prime minister’s final decision on the timing of the election is not yet known, is essentially a reorientation of the original plan based on the April 9th ​​ballot box scenario. In particular, the bills of the Ministries of Justice (today), Education (Tomorrow Wednesday), Environment (Tuesday, March 14), Health (Wednesday, March 15) and Finance (until Friday, March 17).

At the meeting of the Committee on Institutions or at the meetings of the committees and the plenary in the following days on the bills, the atmosphere is expected to be explosive, as the opposition parties, in particular SYRIZA and MeRA25, have shown since yesterday a tendency to sharply criticize the government, which at first tried to lead himself restrained. Indicative of the mood of the official opposition was the yesterday’s position of Mr. N. Fili, who, in the course of a sharp attack on the authorities, spoke about the murders of children on trains and the responsibility of “some people today as authorities”, forcing the Chairman of the Education Committee B. Digalakis to repeatedly call him to comply with the points.