On Thursday, a vote of censure against Greece’s conservative government will be heard in parliament due to allegations that it attempted to influence an ongoing inquiry into the country’s deadliest train accident.
The no-confidence motion will be put to a vote in the evening, which the government majority is predicted to win, following a three-day discussion.
The socialist PASOK party filed the move on Tuesday in response to a newspaper article claiming that a crucial sound clip from the night of the accident—which was being aired by the media at the time—had been manipulated in an inaccurate manner.
In an attempt to support the government’s selected narrative that human error was to blame for the collision that lost 57 lives in February 2023, opposition parties have accused the administration of being behind the purported ruse.
“Public opinion has reached an irrevocable conclusion that you are geared towards a cover-up” of the train tragedy, Nikos Pappas, parliament speaker for the main opposition Syriza party, told the chamber Wednesday.
“You are summoned to give answers,” he said.
Opposition parties claim that friendly media received the altered recording from the government.
