Greek opposition submits censure motion over train tragedy

Athens: Greece s conservative government was hit with a censure motion in parliament on Tuesday over claims that it sought to manipulate an ongoing in...

Athens: Greece's conservative government was hit with a censure motion in parliament on Tuesday over claims that it sought to manipulate an ongoing investigation into the nation's worst train tragedy.

The motion lodged by the socialist PASOK party, and backed by other opposition parties, is unlikely to succeed as the government has an absolute majority in parliament.

PASOK chairman Nikos Androulakis said the motion had the support of three other leftist parties and declared that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis "has no choice, he will come here to justify his actions."

A vote of confidence will be held on Thursday evening after a three-day debate.

The disaster that killed 57 people in February 2023 struck when a freight train and a passenger train with 350 staff and passengers, mostly students, collided near a tunnel outside the central city of Larissa shortly before midnight.