The opposition is calling for a pre-agenda debate at the level of political leaders on the Tempi tragedy in an attempt to take to Parliament and capitalize politically on the message for speeding up the delivery of justice sent out by the rallies last Sunday.

So far, the parliamentary groups of Syriza, KKE, and New Left have submitted a request for a pre-agenda debate.

For its part, the government through Pavlos Marinakis responded that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis “will respond” to the request for the debate in Parliament.

“We are waiting for it to be submitted so that the date where the debate will take place in Parliament can be announced, presumably in the presence of the Prime Minister. He has never hidden, nor will he hide, he always gives answers. And in all of this that we see unfolding until the main process is underway and all the legal, all that is provided for, is followed – we all want answers, and to the extent that each authority has its due, we give answers. And, indeed, the Prime Minister, I remind you, from the very first moment he stepped forward and took a much greater share of the responsibility because that is what we must do when we hold positions of responsibility, for the long-standing failings of this State. The mistakes that were made many years ago and we as the executive ought to take them on board,” the government spokesman said.

The rules of the House of Representatives

It should be noted that according to the Rules of the House, the debate is scheduled within 30 days from the date of filing the relevant motions. At the same time, Alexis Haritsis calls on the “forces of the democratic opposition” to join forces and escalate efforts to collect at least 50 signatures of MPs required for the filing of a motion of no-confidence against the government.

PASOK, SYRIZA, New Left, and Eleftherias have a total of 74 MPs and with the KKE they rise to 95, while if the pool of independents is included they exceed 100.

For now, however, PASOK seems to want to avoid moves of communicative sensationalism. “We will synchronize – and we have done it from the beginning – without communication terms, with substantial steps – every disclosure with our parliamentary action,” Nikos Androulakis said in an interview with the Open TV station to add “when there are new elements, we will do what we have to do again, as we did with two different moves in the past, without tantalum, without communication,” recalling PASOK’s proposal for the establishment of a preliminary inquiry on the 717 contract.

What SYRIZA and KKE report

The SYRIZA in a request signed by Socrates Famellos calls for the immediate holding of the pre-agenda debate on Tempi due to – as it notes – “the seriousness and urgency of the situation that has been formed…”.

“The crime of Tempe has shaken and 2 years later still shakes our society, not only because of the unexpected death of our fellow human beings, but at the same time because of the social consciousness, which is now firmly established, that no responsibility has been attributed to the perpetrators, “The Koumoundourou text states that “this feeling is now a sense of social awakening and claim by the people who flooded Greece and Europe, against the government’s manipulations and to attribute responsibility for both the causes that led to the conflict and the real causes that led to the death of 57 people.”

The corresponding petition submitted by the KKE and signed by the General Secretary of the Central Committee, Dimitris Koutsoubas, notes that the thousands of citizens who demonstrated last Sunday “demand that all those responsible for the tragic crime in Tempe pay. They demand that the real causes that led to it, that remain and are preparing new Tempis, should not be covered up.” The KKE attributes political and criminal responsibility to all the governments of the last decades for the state of the railway network, noting among others that “the bourgeois state and all the bourgeois governments of the last 30 years (ND, PASOK, SYRIZA), together and to proceed with ‘liberalization’, have promoted, from the period when rail transport was still fully state-owned, the splitting and dismemberment of the OSE, the shedding of experienced and qualified staff and understaffing, while subsequently promoting the privatization of the profitable part of transport”.