DISY must leave power and it will leave with our own work, with our own hard effort, AKEL Secretary General Stefanos Stefanou said, speaking on Sunday at the 20th EDON Congress.
As he said, the dead-end situation in which the country and society finds itself gives rise to the need for change, real, substantial, progressive change. "It is not reasonable to expect from Mr. Averof Neophytou, who has been governing for nine years, that now he will take over the presidency and save us, that he will change things. The country needs real change based on a progressive, pro-popular political programme. He added that Cyprus needs a government and a President who gives its people a perspective for tomorrow and not to trap its creative forces in social deadlocks.
Stefanou said that our country and our society are facing hard and dangerous deadlocks which must be addressed.
He added that Cyprus needs a government and a President who gives its people a perspective for tomorrow and not to trap its creative forces in social deadlocks.
Stefanou said that our country and our society are facing hard and dangerous deadlocks which must be addressed. Unfortunately, he added, the DISY government, which has ruled the country for nine years, "has proven that not only is it incapable of dealing with deadlocks, but it is the same government that causes most of them." The DISY government is part of the problems and cannot solve them, he said. DISY must leave power. And it will leave with our work. With our own hard effort," he said.
He added that complexity and corruption "has taken off since DISY became the government" and the name of Cyprus is "vilified internationally" and has become "synonymous with a dirty money laundry and a haven for fraudsters."
He also said that another characteristic of the DISY government is something that for many years did not exist on a massive scale in Cyprus, which is the social and economic insecurity faced by tens of thousands of our fellow citizens, especially many young people.
He added that those in power boast about the low unemployment rate, when the young people of Cyprus, most of them graduates, are working for 700 and 800 euros a month when they need more to rent a two-room apartment, while many of the jobs are with few rights and without protection.
He also said that there are the day labourers of the rulers for whom other rules apply, since even when there are no jobs they create them to make them fit in somewhere.
"They have appointed partners, friends and classmates to the Co-operative and other key positions. They took DISY insiders to the presidential office as associates and overnight turned them into civil servants. They appoint fraternities to key posts to control the golden passport industry. If we add here the unprecedented scandal with Yannis Giannakis of the poor mathematicians, then we understand that meritocracy has gone down the drain. In their governance, qualifications have been replaced by the identity of DISY. This is how they appoint the excellent of the excellent," he said.
He also said that the worst legacy of their decade of governing this country is their handling of the Cyprus problem. He said the Cyprus problem "is in a quagmire.And much worse, the final partition is at stake."
It is taking advantage of the barren passage of time by provoking new occupation defaults on land and sea. And when all this was happening, the rulers expressed certainty that these were communication tricks of the occupying power, cultivating illusions about the alleged fortification of the EEZ by the multilateral meetings and the imposition of sanctions by Europe that will hurt Turkey," he added.
In the face of this dangerous scenario, he added, the DISY government is not worried. With its contradictory and wrong actions, he said, it creates vital space for Turkey to provoke and break the law without any substantial political cost.
"The President and the DISY Government have lost their international credibility and are not convincing that they have the political will to reach a solution. That is why the UN Secretary General in his latest report continues to hold our side jointly responsible for the stalemate and the negotiating impasse. And even worse, while Turkey is raising the issue of a two-state solution, the UN Secretary General does not mention the agreed basis for a solution of a bicommunal, bizonal federation," he said.
He added that Guterres attributes equal responsibility to both sides, but the rulers are obviously not interested in the bad situation that things have reached, but all they are interested in once again is communication management by controlling information at home. "They are indifferent to the risks involved, they are silent about the negative consequences".
At the same time, he said that AKEL is not comfortable with partition and knowing full well the dangers of no solution, it will not throw up its hands and let time consolidate the illegal presence of occupying Turkey in Cyprus and will continue to fight for a solution that will liberate and reunite the land and the people within the framework of UN resolutions and the agreed basis.
Source: CNA
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