The end of the “truce” was marked Alexis Tsipras Since yesterday. The President of SYRIZA, respecting national mourning, did not make any public statements during the week. By his meeting with the railroad workers, he signaled the high tone that the official opposition will henceforth raise. “Without shouting, outbursts and guerrilla robbery”, as they emphasize. It is no coincidence that Christos Spirtzis also gave his first interview on Friday.

Meetings in Kumundura continue. Initial focus group and survey data are encouraging, but SYRIZA prefers to keep a low profile. That part of the erupted anti-system vote doesn’t seem to bother them, arguing that it’s mostly about New Democracy and far right. However, they do not lose sight of the fact that the current wave of anger and the distribution of responsibilities that the government is trying to implement are fraught with many risks. Until May 21, as they say, the most likely date for the elections, the official opposition will have to go through a “marathon”. Her eyes are also on the “left tenement building” for any leaks that might trigger the wave of reaction being created.

At a meeting with the railway workers, the President of SYRIZA emphasized that “the tragedy is not a matter of party opposition, it is a matter of collective opposition of the whole society to those who try to hide the truth.” He added that “denial of responsibility, dissipation of responsibility, offsets – this is an attempt to hide behind.”

Spirtzis and Oikonomou

Speaking to SKAI, Christos Spirtzis dismissed SYRIZA’s possible liability in the period 2015-2019 for shortcomings in the rail network that led to the accident. “The accident would not have happened if what happened before 2019 and 2020 in the EfE. It is tragic to say that there was a head-on collision on a double railway line,” he stressed, adding that “the tram that I saw could be unsafe, I closed it.” The former Minister of Transport defended the signing of an additional contract for the SYRIZA remote control system, attributing the delays in completing the project to the original Samaras-Venizelos government contract and the inaction of the current government.

Yannis Oikonomou accused him of cynicism and hypocrisy. “The implementation of the infamous contract for the period 2017-2019 has been completely stopped. He must have the audacity to claim that the railroad ran like clockwork during SYRIZA and was dismantled by the government of North Dakota.” A government spokesman invited Christos Spircis to be cross-examined with Giorgos Herapetritis in the parliamentary committee on production and trade in order to “catch the real situation.”