{"id":4523,"date":"2026-05-07T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:48:00","slug":"lets-refresh-the-memory-of-christos-spirtzis-with-selective-sensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4523","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s refresh the memory of Christos Spirtzis with selective sensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">It is truly admirable the political audacity of some people to present themselves as the guardians of <b>Justice<\/b>, when <b>their own past resembles a minefield of failures, convenience and fatal appointments<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"> <b>Christos Spirtzis<\/b>, the man whose name has been identified with the most <b>green pages of infrastructure in the country<\/b>, went to the <b>Supreme Court<\/b> today, asking for <b>reopening of files<\/b> and <b>exceptionsprosecutors<\/a><\/b> in the case of <b>watching<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Apparently, <b>Spirtzis<\/b> believes that <b>the Greek people&#8217;s memory is as short as the deadlines he gave to projects he never completed<\/b>. So before he launches into his lofty analyses of &#8220;espionage&#8221; and government responsibilities, perhaps he should answer <b>for his own &#8220;achievements&#8221; that the country has paid &#8211; and is paying dearly<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><b>Let&#8217;s refresh the memory of the former minister<\/b>, who today shows so much <b>selective sensitivity<\/b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"5\">\n<li><b data-path-to-node=\"5,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"><\/b>Who was it that delayed <b>city government in trena<\/b>, leaving the railway network at his mercy?<\/li>\n<li><b data-path-to-node=\"5,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"><\/b>Who proceeded with the famous &#8220;<b>salamization&#8221; of the <b>Patra-Pyrgos<\/b> project<\/b> in order to fit his best man, Mr. Kalogritsa?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">But Mr. <b>Spirtzi&#8217;s <b>contribution<\/b> to the country did not stop there. The <b>appointment of Ioanna Tsiyaparikou<\/b> as <b>Chairman of the Railway Regulatory Authority (RRA) <\/b>is the icing on the cake of <b>left-wing meritocracy<\/b>. A choice that proved fatal, as under her watch <b>the stationmaster who sent 57 people to their deaths in Tempe<\/b> was hired.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">It is, therefore, <b>at the very least ironic to see Mr. Spirtzis wagging his finger at the judiciary and talking about &#8220;criminal acts&#8221;<\/b>when he himself should be apologising every day for the state in which he has left the country&#8217;s infrastructure in. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">Calling for the <b>removal of prosecutors<\/b> because you don&#8217;t like their conclusions is the <b>last resort of a politician desperately trying to stay in the news<\/b>, hoping that his cries about <b>the Predator will drown out the noise from the rails he himself left to rot<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is truly admirable the political audacity of some people to appear as guardians of justice, while their own &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}