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ATHENS, March 21 (Reuters) – Greece will hold general elections in May. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a television interview on Tuesday.

The conservative government’s four-year term ends in July, and Mitsotakis was expected to call an election for early April.

Opinion polls The most terrible iron that happened in Greece on February 28 way after the accident, it shows that his New Democracy party’s lead over the leftist opposition Syriza party has decreased.

The accident in which a passenger train and a freight train collided head-on resulted in the death of 57 people and the railway way caused outrage and mass protests against safety standards.

“I can tell you with certainty that the elections will be held in May,” Mitsotakis said in his first interview with Alpha TV after the natural disaster.

Tens of thousands of people in Greece are due to crash in the biggest street protests the government has faced since its 2019 election rally spent

The protesters are the current government, as well as the previous governments of Greece in the last ten years 2018They accuse him of turning a blind eye to repeated calls from unions over safety deficiencies at the railway, a legacy of the decade-long financial crisis that ended in .

The government mostly blames human error. Station on duty chief including 4 railway workers were detained.

Mitsotakis Greece 2500 km (1550 miles) iron way apologized for the delayed plan to install security systems on its network.

Mitsotakis said it was “difficult” to visit the crash site, but he was not considering resigning.

“I aim to win the elections again and I believe that we will succeed in the end.

Reporting by Karolina Tagaris, Renee Maltezou, Lefteris Papadimas; Edited by Grant McCool

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2023-03-22 09:21:40
Source – reuters

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