Maria Karystianou reacts to Spanish railway tragedy

Maria Karystianou, president of the Elpida gia ti Dimokratia party, has expressed her condolences to the families affected by a recent railway accident in Toledo, Spain. Karystianou, who lost her 19-year-old daughter, Martha, in the Tempi train crash in Greece on February 28, 2023, drew parallels between the two incidents regarding the profound grief of the victims' families.

In her statements, Karystianou emphasized that such tragedies are often not merely the result of human error but are built upon inadequate infrastructure and failing safety systems. She called for non-negotiable political and criminal accountability in both cases, asserting that trains should be treated as a public good rather than a risk to human life due to systemic negligence.