Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke about the Tempi fatal train disaster in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening, ANA reports.
The Premier announced that Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis is to immediately become the interim Infrastructure & Transport Minister until the upcoming national elections, after the Wednesday resignation of Infrastructure & Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis.
Karamanlis “assumed the objective political responsibility, and immediately submitted his resignation,” said Mitsotakis, and “so did the heads of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) and of OSE’s projects branch ErgOSE, he noted; Karamanlis’ stance “honors him,” he added, “as everything shows that the accident is mainly due, unfortunately, to tragic human error.”
Mitsotakis mentioned that he has already requested that Gerapetritis proceed, as soon as possible, with establishing an independent, cross-party committee of experts that will fully investigate the causes of the accident, but which “will also look at the perennial delays in the implementation of railway projects,” he added.
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