The three days of national mourning may be over, but the Tempe tragedy will cast a heavy shadow over Greek society for a very long time to come. The pre-election period will definitely move against the backdrop of a train wreck, as the political conflict between the government and the opposition is already “smoldering”, and only a few hours remain before the “storm” breaks out. SYRIZA, with the visit of Alexis Tsipras to the Renti depot on Thursday, set the stage for the questions that Popi Tsapanidou asked the Prime Minister:

“- What exactly was he going to launch in Thessaloniki the day after the accident? A remote control and alarm center with a non-existent system?

– Who and how appointed an inexperienced and unsuitable person to the post of head of the station Larisa, and how many days before the accident did he take up his duties?

The official opposition “falsely asserts that the government is the only one responsible for the condition of the Greek railways,” noted G. Economou.

The government reserves the right to provide specific answers in the coming hours. Until now, they have preferred to keep a low profile out of respect for the families of the dead passengers as well as the injured.

Yannis Oikonomou stressed that “in a time of great pain and suffering, in the midst of national mourning, SYRIZA decided to officially launch the political exploitation of the tragedy. Farisaika claims that the only person responsible for the state of the Greek railways is the government of N.D. and that they put in a railroad that worked great. Now is not the time for guerrilla warfare.”

In Kumunduru, the Executive Office also held an enlarged meeting on this issue, while meetings in the office of Alexis Tsipras continue on initiatives that will be taken from next week. In addition to the urgent demand to answer whether Kostas Karamanlis will be included in the New Democracy ballots, the official opposition press representative raised another question: “What is the reason for the resignation in 2022 of the chairman of the committee responsible for signaling and security projects on the railway network and what is the answer to the incessant strikes of workers? The debate slowly flares up, and a government spokesman concludes in a statement that “answers will be given in the near future, uncontested by anyone, with decisions and signatures. The answers primarily belong to the Greek society, which rightly wonders about the causes of the tragedy and is outraged, and not SYRIZA. But now is the time for mourning and respect.”

From Koumoundourou, they claim that in the 2015-2019 period, in order to cope with the possibility of human error, OSE ensured that at least two experienced stationmasters were present at each central station. The government echelon headed by Christos Triandopoulos has been in Larissa since Thursday. Speaking to SKAI, Thanos Pleuris said that the causes of the accident needed to be investigated on two levels: “At first, it seems that there was clearly a human error. The second level is whether those factors must be present that are necessary to prevent human error or, if it occurs, it can be prevented.”