Transportation & Infrastructure Minister Kostas Karamanlis who resigned after the deadly train collision will be again an elections candidate of New Democracy in the upcoming elections.
This was announced on Monday by government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou after a journalist question at the briefing.
“On the part of ND and Mr. Karamanlis, there is no intention not to be a candidate in the parliamentary elections,” Oikonomou said.
He described as the ex minister’s resignation as “a brave assumption of political objective responsibility, even though there is a sequence of events and long-term pathogenesis. It is an act that honors Mr. Karamanlis at this level,” Oikonomou noted.
Karamanlis resigned on March 1, hours after the deadly collision and after having visited the crash site. He did not resumed political responsibility over the train crash, he just cited solidarity with the survivors’ and victims’ families’ pain.”
PS of course, K.K. will be a candidate again. There cannot be a Greek Parliament without a representative of one of the few political dynasties in Greece, the Karamanlis family.
PS It will be up to his constituency in Serres, northern Greece, to decide whether he will be elected MP again or he will be sent home for negligence during his service and the audacity to declare his intentions on the day where dozens of the victims – or better say: the remaining parts – are laid to rest into an endless mourning for family and friends.
We have the politicians we deserve and there is no salvation for the citizens of this country.