It is truly admirable the political audacity of some people to present themselves as the guardians of Justice, when their own past resembles a minefield of failures, convenience and fatal appointments.
Christos Spirtzis, the man whose name has been identified with the most green pages of infrastructure in the country, went to the Supreme Court today, asking for reopening of files and exceptionsprosecutors in the case of watching.
Apparently, Spirtzis believes that the Greek people’s memory is as short as the deadlines he gave to projects he never completed. So before he launches into his lofty analyses of “espionage” and government responsibilities, perhaps he should answer for his own “achievements” that the country has paid – and is paying dearly.
Let’s refresh the memory of the former minister, who today shows so much selective sensitivity:
- Who was it that delayed city government in trena, leaving the railway network at his mercy?
- Who proceeded with the famous “salamization” of the Patra-Pyrgos project in order to fit his best man, Mr. Kalogritsa?
But Mr. Spirtzi’s contribution to the country did not stop there. The appointment of Ioanna Tsiyaparikou as Chairman of the Railway Regulatory Authority (RRA) is the icing on the cake of left-wing meritocracy. A choice that proved fatal, as under her watch the stationmaster who sent 57 people to their deaths in Tempe was hired.
It is, therefore, at the very least ironic to see Mr. Spirtzis wagging his finger at the judiciary and talking about “criminal acts”when he himself should be apologising every day for the state in which he has left the country’s infrastructure in.
Calling for the removal of prosecutors because you don’t like their conclusions is the last resort of a politician desperately trying to stay in the news, hoping that his cries about the Predator will drown out the noise from the rails he himself left to rot.
