PM:07:34:08/03/2023
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SULAIMANI — Greece’s public sector employees' union
federation, ADEDY, and several others are joining forces Wednesday in 24-hour
demonstrations concerning a deadly train accident.
ADEDY and unions representing seamen, hospital employees and
doctors and school teachers are demanding answers to the head-on train
collision last week that left at least 57 dead. There are also demands for
safer transportation in Greece’s transport system.
"The Union’s demand that the real responsibilities are
assigned, that the murderous crime of Tempe does not pass into oblivion,
demanding modern and safe mass transportation against the policy that turns
transportation from a social good into a commodity,” leftist affiliated website
Left.gr said in a statement.
Government spokesman Yiannis Economou responded in an
interview with SKAI TV and he said: "Responsibilities will be sought at all
levels and there will be no cover-up," underlining that it is "our
basic obligation in the face of this unspeakable tragedy, for the people who
are burying their relatives, the victims who have passed, the people who were
left behind."
Economou said there is a committee of experts investigating
the accident who will conduct an administrative and technical assessment.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has asked that any
investigation should be conducted without delay, he said.
"It is our obligation to do everything in our power to
prevent it from happening again. Our priority is first to give answers to
society and secondly to act -- immediate and medium- to long-term -- so that
things will be significantly and substantially improved, and it is certain that
something like this will not happen again," said Economou.
MP and member of the central committee of the Greek
communist party, Yiannis Giokas, said Wednesday on ERT1 that the rhetoric by
the New Democracy and SYRIZA parties has intensified the already existing world
anger about the tragedy in Tempe.
Giokas pointed out that on one hand, "New Democracy invents
new excuses every day to hide its enormous responsibilities for the crime and
does not respond to the complaints of the workers' unions about the gaps in
security and on the other hand SYRIZA makes very convenient criticism in order
to hide” their own responsibilities.
Demonstrators are also demanding equal opportunities for
women in the health and welfare sector to mark International Women’s Day.
(NRT Digital Media/AA)