The New Democracy MP and former deputy minister Christos Triantopoulos is being referred to the Special Court for the alteration of the site of the Tempi railway accident.
As PASOK points out in its announcement, “the judicial development comes as a continuation of the proposal by PASOK's Parliamentary Group to establish a preliminary investigation committee on the basis of the case file that had been sent to Parliament. With one guiding principle: to open the way for the investigation by the natural judge, because accountability is a fundamental obligation toward citizens.
At that time New Democracy argued that no criminal indications against Mr. Triantopoulos arose from the evidence in the case file, voted for PASOK's request and subsequently orchestrated, exploiting its majority, fast track procedures, with the result that the Committee did not complete the preliminary examination.
Does the government still maintain today that the parliamentary process and the referral for judicial investigation were unnecessary?
Our position was and remains clear: no cover-up, no preferential treatment, no institutional backsliding.
And this value-based position of ours was also reflected in the constitutional revision. The New Democracy government proposed a revision of Article 86, but for the referral of the investigated members of the government to again be decided by the respective majority. Once again it deceived the citizens. For two years it was committing to a revision of Article 86 and in the end “Manolios changed and wore his clothes differently.”
In contrast to PASOK, which proposes that the referral of Ministers be decided by special judicial bodies, independently of the approval of the respective parliamentary majority, in order to put an end to phenomena of impunity”.