Maria Karystianou announces her political party on the birthday of her daughter who died in the Tempi train crash

Maria Karystianou announced her enactment today, April 1, done a station connected societal media with the slogan “We are starting for hope.” However, arsenic she says, the sanction of the question volition beryllium revealed successful the coming days.

In a long-planned move, the erstwhile caput of the Tempi victims’ relation fundamentally announced the model of the movement’s positions, arsenic she calls it.

Announcement made connected the day of her girl Marthi
She chose to marque the announcement today, April Fool’s Day, which is besides the day of her girl Marthi, who was killed successful the Tempi railway tragedy.

In her post, Maria Karystianou states astir the caller party:

“We are starting connected the archetypal of the month, aiming for the archetypal spot successful enactment for TRUTH and JUSTICE! From ‘I’ to ‘We’
There are moments successful a country’s past erstwhile soundlessness becomes heavier than injustice itself. At specified a moment, we chose to speak. Not due to the fact that it is easy, but due to the fact that it is the lone happening that tin support america lasting and support HOPE alive.
This question was not calved successful sterile places. It was calved successful the hearts of radical who refused to judge decay. We are starting contiguous arsenic an impenetrable HOPE of TRUTH, JUSTICE & DIGNITY.
We invited you with emotion to the beforehand line! Because what is just, erstwhile claimed with religion and unity, ne'er loses.
WE ARE STARTING FOR HOPE!”

On the website xekiname.gr, Maria Karystianou besides includes basal accusation astir the movement’s individuality and positions.

“We are an INDEPENDENT CITIZENS’ MOVEMENT calved from the grassroots, from our shared request for alteration to yet come. We are radical of antithetic backgrounds, divers paths, activistic oregon not, of each ages and experiences. We cannot beryllium contained by a label. We are agreed by a communal vision: that we DESERVE A BETTER COUNTRY…”

(The substance continues describing citizens from each walks of beingness agreed by a shared consciousness of injustice, solidarity, and anticipation for a amended communal future.)

She besides published the archetypal promotional video: a achromatic dove holding a aureate olive subdivision breaks an hourglass and flies retired of a window.