Greece’s ex-Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis to rerun as election candidate

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Greece’s former Transportation and Infrastructure Minister, Kostas Karamanlis, will rerun as an election candidate for the New Democracy (ND) party in the upcoming national elections, a government spokesman has confirmed.

This comes after Mr Karamanlis resigned last week following Greece’s deadliest train crash at Tempi which killed at least 57 people, many of them students.

Greek government spokesman, Giannis Oikonomou, confirmed the news to reporters on Monday and said: “On the part of ND and Mr Karamanlis, there is no intention not to be a candidate in the parliamentary elections.”

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, second left, accompanied by former Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis, left, visit the location of train collision in Tempi. Photo: Dimitris Papamitsos / Greek Prime Minister’s Office via AP, File.

Mr Oikonomou described the ex-minister’s resignation as “a brave assumption of political objective responsibility” and said it “honours him as a politician and as a person.”

On the topic of elections, when asked if Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce a date soon, Mr Oikonomou that “the prime minister is not concerned with the time of the elections” at present.

Source: Keep Talking Greece.

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