The Greek parliament has rejected a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s government.
After two days of intense debates, 157 members voted against the motion, while 136 supported it.
Given the conservative Nea Dimokratia party’s absolute majority of 156 out of 300 seats in the parliament, the outcome comes as no surprise.
The motion was introduced on Wednesday by four opposition parties, led by the socialist Pasok party, which accused Mitsotakis’s conservative government of “criminal incompetence” in handling a deadly train crash in 2023.
On 28 February 2023, shortly before midnight, a passenger train travelling from Athens to Thessaloniki collided head-on with a freight train near Larissa. The crash killed 57 people, most of them young.
Both trains had been running on the same track for 19 minutes without any warning signals.
Last week, a memorial event for the accident in Athens was marred by clashes.
About 20,000 people gathered in the capital to commemorate the tragedy, with similar gatherings taking place elsewhere.
