Frixos Dalitis
They want to put pressure on the Government from both sides to show that they are and will remain the main opposition force, around which any movement for change in view of 2023 should be organized.
With this axis, AKEL has mobilized all party mechanisms in view of today's protest against the Government. An event which is essentially a kind of first examination that the new leadership of the party wants to pass. A massive and dynamic presence outside the Presidential Palace today will send many loud messages not only to the rulers but also to the opposition forces in view of a possible effort of reconciliation and cooperation in the near future. “Tomorrow anger must become a loud voice. Indignation must become the will and action for another, better Cyprus! “For the Cyprus that we deserve!”, Wrote yesterday the secretary of AKEL in a post.
The call of the party's spokesman George Koukoumas, who addressed those who “we believe that Cyprus deserves better” to be outside the Presidential Palace, followed the same wavelength.
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“The humiliation of Cyprus has no end. Today, the press presents documents for another scandal involving Mr. Anastasiadis and the law firm of the same name. Nikos Anastasiadis, lawyers of the office, with misleading information, represented Ryan Air in negotiations with the state for the sale of Cyprus Airways. Companions. Partners. Ημέτεροι. Daughters and grooms. His tycoon friends, Saudi Arabia and now Lebedev. Passports and Pandora Papers. The jets and Ryan Air. These are the works of the government of Nikos Anastasiadis and Averof Neophytou. And the most outrageous of all is that they insist on being innocent and undefiled, confirming how much they underestimate the intelligence of the citizens. Everything converges on a resounding mandate of society. “There is no other way,” he said. He added that this anger must become a voice and action for another, better Cyprus.
At the same time, however, the mass presence outside the Presidential Palace today is a bet for the leadership of AKEL, which wants to move at a pace of full attack against the Government and the Democratic Alarm, expanding the circle of criticism beyond its subject. difference. The issue of accuracy has already been included in AKEL's agenda and which is now at the forefront of the opposition agenda. In the previous days, the secretary general of AKEL had requested the registration of a proposal for a law to amend the VAT. In a week, the issue is expected to become even more critical in the anti-Government, as at the same time new relevant proposals are being prepared that will have the issue of accuracy.
Pelican: We will not follow the descent
The response of the Government Spokesman Marios Pelekanos was strong, stating that the Government will not follow AKEL downhill, accusing the Left party of using the same methods it used before the parliamentary elections. “The response of the people does not seem to have favored methods that, instead of the interests of the whole, serve only partisan purposes for vote-rigging,” he said.
He went on to say that AKEL, last year on such days, in the midst of a pandemic, had implemented the plan to paralyze the state, by voting against the Budget. “This year, propagandizing, once again, he is trying to set the same scenario again. “Not only will he not vote on the budget, but a year and a few months before the 2023 elections, and just a few months after his electoral fiasco in the Parliamentary Elections, he again appears as the main destabilizing factor, nostalgic for chaos and dissolution.” , write down.
Averoff: During the AKEL government they gave citizenship
Averof Neophytou responded to Hezekiah Papaioannou on a hard rock line, stating that AKEL blames the President and the Government for a shell company that was written several years ago but that the Government of Nikos Anastasiadis, with a political decision, put an end to shell companies. “And at the time when it was decided to abolish this practice, AKEL was protesting that this right decision of the Government would supposedly affect our relations with Russia”, he stated, adding that “for this reason the main accused by AKEL is the President is the one who acquired citizenship through procedures under the governance of AKEL “. Averof Neophytou also noted that these issues are resolved with institutional changes such as the one with the Government's decision to abolish shell companies, but also with other measures taken by the Government. He also referred to the invitation of the Government and the President to all parties “together to see mistakes and weaknesses and we owe it to society through a strong institutional framework, to improve the system so that there are no possibilities that create a bad image for our country ». To conclude by saying that “this is the first thing and in order to be able to change our place we all need to contribute together and there is no point in blaming each other who is the most honest or the least corrupt”.
