(ANSA-AFP) - ATHENS, MAR 29 - Greece's conservative
government survived a censure motion in parliament on Thursday
that was lodged over claims it had tried to manipulate an
investigation into the deadly train collision that rocked the
country last year. The no-confidence motion was defeated, with
159 deputies of the 300 in parliament voting against, and 141 in
favour. The conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos
Mitsotakis has a parliamentary majority and was widely expected
to defeat the motion lodged by the socialist PASOK party on
Tuesday. The motion came after a newspaper report claimed that a
key sound recording from the night of the accident, which
claimed 57 lives in February 2023, had been misleadingly edited.
Opposition parties accused the government of having been behind
the alleged subterfuge as part of efforts to reinforce its
chosen narrative that human error was to blame for the head-on
collision. (ANSA-AFP).
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