The identity of children is a right of children, independent MP Andreas Themistocleous said on Wednesday on the issue of writing the names of father and mother on political ID cards.
"Identity means particularity. It means diversity. Identity means significance and identity is determined by the particular characteristics of each person and each child," Themistocleous said in a statement on the sidelines of a session of the Parliament's Education Committee.
Woe, he continued, to the people whose MPs interpret and pass laws according to the measure of their personal case or their personal circumstances.
Themistocleous noted that it amazes him how it is possible that a mother does not want her name to be written on her child's identity card.
"I honestly don't understand this and I would very much like my fellow councillors to explain this issue to us and I still don't understand the compulsion, how it is possible that the individual is put above and at the expense of the collective," he added.
"The individual overriding the collective and an infinitesimally small, minuscule minority wanting to impose their opinion on the vast majority of the Cypriot people who want, are not bothered and feel proud of their parents who are enrolled in the ID card, but they themselves who are enrolled in their children's ID cards," he concluded.
Source: CNA
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