Karystianou denies reports she is launching political party

Maria Karystianou, president of the Tempe Victims Association, which represents the families of the 57 radical killed successful the 2023 train crash, has dismissed reports that she is founding a caller governmental enactment arsenic “fake news.”

In a strongly worded statement posted connected κοινωνικά media, Karystianou, whose girl Marthi died successful the collision, called the reports “a malicious effort to spread fake news, aiming to nexus maine with the corrupt aged governmental system and to divert attraction from the issues that should interest us close now.”

The reports followed a κοινωνικά media station by Nikos Karahalios, a erstwhile adjacent adjutant to erstwhile blimpish premier ministers Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras, who is said to beryllium adjacent to Karystianou. Karahalios shared a connection astir the instauration of a caller question called “To Kyma” (The Wave), including a nexus to tokyma.org, which leads to a webpage showing a video of a logo transitioning betwixt antithetic colors. No further accusation was provided.

Karystianou has dismissed akin speculation successful the past. Recent polls suggested that much than 20 percent of respondents would support a enactment led by her, placing it 2nd down the ruling New Democracy party.