Grèce: gouvernement Mitsotakis sous motion censure

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Le gouvernement grec de Kyriakos Mitsotakis est confronté jeudi à une motion de censure au Parlement, accusé par l'opposition de gauche de dissimuler les responsabilités politiques dans la catastrophe ferroviaire de 2023. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 The Greek government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has confronted Thursday a motion of censure

00:04 in Parliament, accused by the opposition on the left of hiding political responsibilities

00:08 in the 2023 railway disaster.

00:11 This motion, proposed by the PASOK socialist party supported in particular by the main

00:16 opposition formation on the left, SYRIZA, has no chance of knocking down the executive.

00:20 Because having 158 seats out of 300, the right-wing party "New Democracy" of the Prime Minister

00:27 holds the absolute majority in the monocameral parliament.

00:30 The vote is expected in the evening after an intervention by Mr Mitsotakis, attacked

00:35 for his judgment-driven management of the collision which had killed 57 on February 28,

00:39 2023 and upset the whole country.

00:41 It will come to a close in two days, and almost overnight, of acrimonious debates during

00:47 which the accusations of incurring and criminal actions have been at the government's

00:51 disposal.

00:52 Public opinion has reached an irrevocable conclusion, your actions aim at a concealment

00:56 of the responsibilities, said Nikos Papas, head of the parliamentary group SYRIZA.

01:01 "You are summoned to give answers," he added.

01:05 "In all scandals, your political choice is to hide the truth," the PASOK leader,

01:12 Nikos Androulakis, also attacked.

01:13 "The unprecedented denigration of the state of law and institutions by the government

01:18 cannot last any longer," he also underlined.

01:20 Destabilize. The deposition of this motion of censorship on Tuesday came after revelations

01:26 in the Dominican newspaper Tuvima affirming that the recordings of conversations between

01:30 the train conductor and the train conductor the evening of the accident were manipulated

01:34 to credit the thesis of human error. The spokesperson for the Prime Minister has strongly denied

01:39 this information and accused the opposition of wanting to destabilize the country. But

01:44 for a year, families of victims and political leaders supported by a part of the civil society

01:49 continue to denounce the serious negligence at the origin of this accident.

01:52 This full-blown collision between a passenger train and a freight convoy has highlighted

01:57 the unacceptable flaws in the security of the Greek railways, according to the text

02:01 of the motion of censorship, and in particular the considerable delays caused by Greece in

02:05 modernizing its signaling systems.

02:08 To the criminal oligarchy, an attempt was made to conceal the case, as criminal and methodical

02:14 as it is, continues the text that describes Mr. Mitsotakis but also the former Minister

02:17 of Transport Kostas Karamanlis who resigned the day after the disaster.

02:22 Intervening in Parliament, the latter, who is also a deputy, assured "I have never

02:28 hidden and I do not hide behind any parliamentary immunity. If someone has real accusations

02:34 against me with evidence, let him stop shouting and let him bring them. I am here, has he

02:40 also launched? "

02:41 For months, the collective of families of the victims, very active, have been demanding

02:46 and demanding the removal of parliamentary immunity from Mr. Karamanlis and his predecessor

02:50 on the left Christos Pirtzi. The opposition on the left has also taken to the parliamentary

02:56 inquiry commission set up after the collision and which, according to it, was instrumentalized

02:59 by the majority in power to serve their objective and hide political responsibilities.

03:04 Dissemination.

03:05 In the European Parliament, the representative of this collective, Maria Karistianou, also

03:12 accused the government of "hiding". More than 30 railway workers have so far

03:17 been prosecuted in this case, but no high-ranking officials.

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