In his post, Mr. Georgiadis refers to the stance of the opposition, specifically SYRIZA and PASOK, regarding what they support regarding the criminal responsibilities of the former Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Kostas Karamanlis, on the occasion of the 717 convention, while noting that, if this is the case , then “Syriza ministers should be in prison from the first moment”.
In fact, Adonis Georgiadis emphasizes that “I honestly believe that in the tragedy of the Tempe disaster our Government, out of embarrassment and out of the pain we all feel for this event, completely lost the battle of impressions in the Public Opinion”.
See the entire post by Adonis Georgiadis on Facebook
“…the Truth is not fleeting”
In my life from the first day that my fellow citizens did me the honor of continuously electing me as their representative in Parliament, I decided not to behave like an ordinary politician. Not to decide based on my personal political cost, not to hide my true opinion, about something I consider important, when the Common Opinion is vehemently against it and therefore going with the flow or silence is more politically beneficial.
When I supported from the first day of our bankruptcy in 2010, the Memorandum, almost alone publicly at the time, I received 200 million per day with curses and insults to see later when those who cursed me took power, to apply it to the letter and even in tougher version because of the lost time that had intervened. But that’s how I am and I don’t intend to change now.
When New Democracy secured its massive victory last May, I naively believed that the Opposition would realize that the Greek people had rejected toxicity and hatred and we could enter a period of political normalcy. I was wrong!
I am watching, like all of us at this time, the cannibalism being attempted by various sides against the former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Member of Parliament for Serres, Mr. Costas Karamanlis. I had no special political relations with the Karamanlis family. Maybe they would have treated me with a reservation at first because of my political path and my style. However, I had a very good collaboration with Mr. Costas Karamanlis and I must say that I still believe he was a good Minister.
I imagine that within my Faction there are many, with extremely closer political ties to him and his family, but, sorry, I, in what I see, cannot remain silent. I’m losing popularity and votes for writing such an article today, but if I don’t say what I believe, I’ll be ashamed one day that I didn’t say it.
This morning on Sky TV, I heard the Secretary of Pasok, Mr. Spyropoulos (with his characteristic “calm” style…) say the following verbatim: “Mr. Karamanlis must be brought to justice, because if he had completed the 717 convention in time, then the children would not have died…”.
But then, to the persistent questions of the journalists, “what is the criminal offense for which you are accusing him” he again said the following verbatim: “instead of declaring the contractor company bankrupt and imposing a fine on it, he also gave it other money to continue the work…”.
Commonly according to Pasok (I am very afraid that this same absolute confusion prevails in the greater part of the Common Opinion) Mr. Kostas Karamanlis is responsible and even criminally because he did not manage to complete the relevant contract 100% of the way, so that the accident, but also at the same time because he did not declare the contractor company exempt, an act that if he had done, then the project would have automatically stopped and therefore the accident would certainly not have been avoided…
That is, Mr. Kostas Karamanlis, according to the majority, is simultaneously responsible for both one and its exact opposite… it is absolutely obvious that this cannot be the case and therefore the most likely thing is that Mr. Karamanlis must be responsible, because someone must be responsible for such a tragic event!
And if the accusations hurled by the relatives and especially the parents of these children are absolutely justified and respected (we all just have to bow our heads to those who suffer the greatest pain that exists in this life), as for the our political opponents can only be disgusted by this vulgar political exploitation. I mentioned the family of Mr. Kostas Karamanlis before and not by chance.
In general, in politics and in life, having a heavy surname is good, but there are times when it can turn out to be very bad. I am convinced that one of the reasons that this particular former Minister receives this amount of criticism and anger is his last name. Something so tragic needs a great sacrifice to heal and what could be greater than a Karamanli. In this automatic reaction of the Common Opinion, our political opponents think that they have found an opportunity to overturn the political correlations and inflict a crucial blow on our Party and the Government.
If I believed that Mr. Karamanlis has, even the faintest signs of criminal responsibility, I would be the first to tell him. But if I accept that the failure of even one Minister to finish a contract faster (because he finally finished it) gives rise to criminal liability, then no Minister would be left out of prison. To make it clear to you with two examples. One of the most dangerous roads in the country with the most traffic accidents every year is the BOAK in Crete, another is the Patras/Pyrgos route. Both roads have been declared by different Governments, entered into contracts, unjoined, etc., with the result that they are still incomplete to this day.
If a Minister has criminal responsibilities because a Convention was not completed and thus a tragic accident was not avoided, then why do not all Ministers who failed to finish these roads have corresponding criminal responsibilities?
In the tragedy in Mati, which Syriza has completely forgotten of course and for the 106 dead there, no banner was raised, but neither are they posting, the prosecutor’s proposal said verbatim: “If the 112 had been completed then the people would have been saved and they lived…”. So with exactly the same reasoning, all the Syriza Ministers who did not complete the 112 (which we made within a few months of office was so easy, while the 717 contract Syriza did not manage to finish for 5 years) should already be in prison.
No one thinks about these things and does not highlight them because the pain that this tragedy caused to all of us has prevailed and this is understandable to a certain extent, but on the other hand we cannot, due to our pain and their gluttony for power, to abolish all the rules of logic. With Mr. Karamanlis, the even more outrageous thing has happened.
Mr. Pappas of Syriza reached the point of cursing on air his fellow citizens in Serres who voted for him, as complicit in Murder… we are talking about unrestrained populism and irrationality. And when Kyriakos Velopoulos had started the conspiracy theories about the “bazoma” (the necessary, i.e., filling up the ground in order to set up the cranes and immediately lift the wagons that weighed tons and find any survivors or collect the bodies) most did not give importance. Today, however, the Majority of Public Opinion bases its belief about the so-called “Cover-up” on this nonsense, which some also somehow blame on Mr. Karamanlis, who had already resigned at the time.
Today, Mr. Androulakis (he is a huge disappointment, unfortunately) accused me of using Gebelian propaganda for Tempi, but let this honest man, the Minister of Shipping, for example, tell us. in Samina should he have gone to prison? Because this means criminal responsibilities for the Minister. I honestly believe that in the tragedy of the Tempe accident our Government, out of embarrassment and out of the pain we all feel for this event, completely lost the battle of impressions in the Common Opinion.
And so we have come to be accused by the majority of a Cover-up, when for the Eye the Trial is now taking place after 6 years, while for the Tempi the Trial will begin in less than 1.5 years from the tragedy. The first is considered normal, the second a cover-up, if possible. And we are to be accused of political exploitation in Mati, when we accused them only of incompetence and bad theater, while we never said that there should be a preliminary for their Ministers, now they are talking about criminal responsibilities of Ministers for an Accident that was baptized “crime” and ” murder”.
I fully understand the public’s anger, pain and fear over this tragic accident, but it was an accident, not a crime. No one wanted all these children to be killed, nor did anyone act maliciously, with the intention of doing so. Unbearable, each of us thinks that his own child could also be on this train, but we must not let this pain turn Greece back to political toxicity. Greece will pay a lot for this in the future.
And no, Mr. Kostas Karamanlis is not a murderer and has no criminal responsibilities for the accident.
Every day many public contracts are not implemented, many tenders are stopped in the courts, many company disputes delay many projects. To make better processes, to find a way to do things better, to make better trains, there is a lot to do, but not to become a jungle, where one will blame the other! Enough with the vulgarity in politics.
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