Gov’t ‘accepts’ opposition’s challenge of a no confidence motion

The government accepts the challenge of a motion of no confidence by opposition parties, spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said Sunday.

Earlier, socialist PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis had called on "the parties of the democratic spectrum" to deposit a joint motion of no confidence in Parliament, based on a front-page article in Sunday newspaper "To Vima" claiming that conversations between the Larissa station master - the one closest to the site of the Tempe train crash - the trains' drivers and other persons had been stitched together and offered to pro-government media to give the impression the deadly accident was due exclusively to human error.

Government sources have replied that the investigating authorities have complete sets of recordings from the night in question. They also argue that the paper's revelation is not new, as a few days after the train crash, some...