Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce a remodeling of his office in the coming days, five government officials told Reuters on Thursday as he seeks to reinforce support after mass protests about a deadly train accident in 2023.
Mitsotakis is expected to replace Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis, according to four of the authorities. Transport Minister Christos Staikouras will also leave the position and a deputy minister will probably be in charge of supervising Greece’s railroad reform, another source said.
The remodeling, which is expected for Saturday (15), occurs weeks after hundreds of thousands of people went to the streets demanding justice for the worst rail of Greece, in which 57 people died, most of them students.
It was Greece’s biggest protest in years and shook Mitsotakis’s center-right government, which fell into opinion polls. Last week, the government survived a vote of distrust on the subject.
The government promised to reform the railways when it won the reelection in 2023 after the accident, but progress has been slow.
The security gaps that caused the accident were not filled two years later, a state inquiry discovered last month, and no one was convicted of the accident. A separate judicial investigation is underway and should be completed this year.
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