Koutsoumbas: KKE will not take part in the voting on Karamanlis

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) will not "legitimise this farcical procedure" by voting, KKE General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas told a plenary session of Parliament on Tuesday, during the debate on the findings of the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee for the conduct of a preliminary investigation regarding the tragic Tempi train crash and the possible commission of the offense of breach of duty by former transport minister Kostas Karamanlis.
"Today, the government and the ruling majority of New Democracy are completing the poorly staged theatre of the cover-up that they orchestrated - the second one after the case of Triantopoulos, and as it seems, more are to follow," said Koutsoumbas in his speech in Parliament. 
He said that the government "continues to bear responsibility because, by implementing the EU's directives on the 'liberalisation' of railway transport and its operation as a business, on the fragmentation of OSE (Hellenic Railways Organisation), and the privatisation of TRAINOSE, they reduced the railway to the notoriously deplorable state that led to the Tempi crime."
KKE's leader described the proposal of the ruling majority as a "whitewash for Karamanlis," since "it suggests he be investigated only for a minor misdemeanor, while for all other responsible parties for the Tempi crime, it proposes nothing."
Koutsoumbas said that his party "will continue the fight to ensure all those guilty of crimes born from your policies are punished, and also to expose their real causes - the very causes that the government, institutions, and all system-aligned parties have a vested interest in covering up. And rest assured, no matter what you do, no matter what schemes you come up with, in the end, you will not escape punishment by the people. The Parliamentary Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) will not legitimise this mockery and will not participate in this farcical procedure and vote."

 

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