The failure of the Public Sector to pursue legal remedies in the Tempi tragedy, refers to a post by the vice president of the government Kostis Hatzidakis.
As he points out, “It is our self-evident obligation not to suffer the relatives of the victims of the tragedy of Tempi. And the least we can do is not add further legal adventures to people who have lost loved ones and are experiencing grief or were themselves injured in this accident.
With the Law for a more citizen-friendly state, which was passed in Parliament on my initiative, we had provided that in cases of particular social importance, following an act of the Council of Ministers,the State would not exercise legal remedies. This initiative was voted for in Parliament by all parties without exception. Previously, different legislative regulations for Mandra and Mati had preceded it.”
At this point, Kostis Hatzidakis said that “yesterday, at the Ministerial Council, the ministers responsible by law, K. Pierrakakis and K. Kyranakis, recommended the implementation of this regulation for the Tempi accident. And thus the state will refrain from pursuing legal remedies against decisions awarding damages for mental anguish to victims’ relatives or moral damages to injured people. While in cases where they have been brought, it will be waived. Obviously, we are not celebrating this initiative.”
At the same time, he informed, “we continue to work intensively to ensure that the other important provisions of the same law are quickly implemented. For example,the possibility of replacing supporting documents with affidavits, the abstention of the State, under certain conditions, from claiming citizens’ properties, and digital information on the progress of citizens’ applications to the State.”
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