Maria Karystianou is working at full speed to form her core team of collaborators in the immediate future, with whom she will move forward to create her new political party. According to sources, the president of the Association of Relatives of Tempe Victims has been in constant contact with people who led the mobilizations for the tragic accident. This is because she will seek candidates for her new party’s ballot through these activist networks.
Sources also indicate she is already in contact with university academics to help formulate the party’s program. Maria Karystianou wants the party to be fully formed by spring, when the Tempe trial begins. Any interventions concerning the government and justice system will be made through this new political vehicle. This way, citizens will associate Maria Karystianou’s party with the opposition, giving it even greater electoral momentum.
Meanwhile, she is intensifying her daily interventions on all social issues. Following recent events at “Eleftherios Venizelos” Airport, the head of the Association of Relatives of the tragic train accident victims, Maria Karystianou, intervened by warning of the danger of a Tempe-like tragedy occurring in air transport. Citing airport workers’ reports and Greece’s recent referral to the European Union Court of Justice for failing to implement performance-based navigation approach procedures at airports, Mrs. Karystianou accused the government of “persisting in the same tactics it followed with railways: demonstratively ignoring experts.”
“When indifference becomes systematic, accidents cease to be ‘unfortunate moments’ and become premeditated crimes,” she emphasizes. She also notes that “even after the Tempe tragedy, the communication line remains the same: ‘these things happen everywhere.'” A cynical admission that plays with logic and, primarily, with our lives.
“The time has come to claim our rights, demand respect, and achieve the vision of a true Rule of Law state,” she concluded.
