No matter what we are accused of, this historic party has paved roads and ensured the stability of the country, DISY President Averof Neophytou said today, adding that the party is a champion and leader of reforms.
The DISY President was speaking at a conference of the DISY Sports Secretariat, organized in Limassol on the topic, "Unified Sports Legislation", in the presence of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, the President of the COA and the Mayor of Limassol.
As he said, "in any sector any reforms were made, DISY was the leader and champion of the reforms", adding that "no matter what we are accused of, this historical party is the one that paved the way and ensured the stability of the country".
Neophytou raised the issue of creating a Deputy Ministry of Sports, adding that the number of Deputy Ministries that small Cyprus could have should first be determined.
"Once we set this framework, the ceiling, I think it would be right (for a Deputy Ministry of Sport) as sport is a serious sector that concerns the whole of society, not only the professionals, but it starts from our children and continues to our pensioners," he added.
Referring to the issue of uniform sports legislation and welcoming the initiative of the Sports Bureau to discuss the issue, the DISY President indicated that "we have to do it, but we have to look at it horizontally and have a special team to do uniform legislation for each sector".
"One of the problems in the country is polygamy and there are many different laws on the same issue concerning different ministries, so they clash with each other," he said, adding that "we are radicals, we are reformers and we can make leaps forward and create the best Cyprus for us and our children."
[P NEOPHYTOU ALSO REFERRED TO THE ISSUE OF TERM LIMITS FOR SPORTS FEDERATIONS, SAYING THAT THIS SHOULD BE COMBINED WITH THE USE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GAINED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE, OFFERING FOR A LIFETIME IN SPORT.
We should not, he continued, let the experience of these people go to waste and "we need to find a statutory way to see how we use them and at the same time make the change by setting a limit on tenure without leaving this national wealth of knowledge unclaimed."
Finally, he congratulated the Sports Secretariat for its initiative as well as the Government of President Nicos Anastasiades, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, Prodromos Prodromou and his predecessors, Kostas Kadis and Kostas Hambiaouris, for the work they have accomplished during the current administration.
A short address was given by the Minister of Education, who expressed his satisfaction with the initiative of the DISY Sports Office to discuss and put forward proposals for a unified sports legislation.
"This party is proud that the entire structure, the institutional framework, the policy directions in sport, come from DISY," Prodromou said, adding that "in no time at all, from pioneers of sport who were pioneers of the party, we have paved the way."
Stepping today on solid ground, with the work done by both the COA and the Olympic Committee, in its own field, "all this time we managed to manage the painful period of the pandemic, we managed to keep the spark and momentum of sport alive," the Minister concluded his intervention.
Source: CNA
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