Ahead of Sunday's election, Greece's worst rail crash is held up as proof of a broken government.
Anastasia and her cousins were among 57 people killed in Greece's biggest rail disaster in FebruaryAs backdrops to polling stations go, the view from Kastraki primary school is about as spectacular as it gets.But beneath the surface of this striking natural beauty is a community consumed with grief.
Ahead of Sunday's general election, opposition parties have raised the disaster time and again as a symptom of a broken government and dysfunctional state. Mr Plakias shakes his head when I ask if he has faith that any leader or party will help to prevent a similar catastrophe.The sense of exasperation that nothing will change is compounded for many voters by the surnames on ballot papers up and down the land.
Two hours' drive north of the rocks of Kastraki, in the village of Proti, we watch a taxi driver greet the statue of the founder of modern Greece, Konstantinos Karamanlis, a four-time prime minister and later president. The day after the fatal train crash, Kostas Karamanlis resigned as transport minister, admitting the rail network he was responsible for was not fit for purpose.
I ask: couldn't the former transport minister also have resigned from politics as a sign of respect for the dead?
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