Tsipras inaugurates Thesssaloniki metro station... with no lines

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in his greeting, did not fail to talk about "feats" and to promise interventions in the urban transport of Thessaloniki and other projects.

Of course, not could also not but implicitly mention the Prespa Agreement, saying that "we have real concern for Northern Greece, for Macedonia, real concern rather than falsehoods that some preach, while at the same time proclaiming hatred for the neighbor."

Opposition reactions

Opposition parties ironically commented on the opening of the station by Tsipras. "SYRIZA launches the ... METRO of Thessaloniki, or rather a ... without METRO station, with a concert and with the presence of Prime Minister A. Tsipras. In essence, he launches ... escalators, " said New Democracy in a statement. As they say, "they are the same people who launched the inauguration as those of that launched the... fast train connection last September that brought a train from Italy to the Thessaloniki Exhibition to show it for a week."

"As ... the train left, but the same railway link remained, also today, when Mr. Tsipras will leave, Thessaloniki will remain with the wretched urban transport, with full buses, with traffic jams, broken merchants and closed shops in the shopping center . And of course without METRO ", stresses New Democracy.

"Its inhabitants will continue to suffer and feel that those above them are mocking them. As if they were not dignified, behaving to them as if to savages, sometimes calling on them to admire the train, sometimes to descend the escalator and to ... imagine they will travel by METRO ... Populism in all its glory,"concludes New Democracy.

"Poor comedy" Potami called the opening to the public of the station and added: "The Thessalonians cannot buy tickets for the Silver Arrow, nor can they buy tickets for the metro. What's more they cannot buya tickets for the mischievous pre-election comic performances of SYRIZA starring Tsipras-Spirtsis."

For "pre-election campaigns in works that have been paid by the people of our region for 20 years have not been completed with the responsibility of all governments and the current government of SYRIZA-ANEL", spoke the the Central Macedonia chapter of the communist party KKE.