Continuation tomorrow at AKEL for the candidate to go before the Central Committee
As the party says in a simple statement, "the Political Bureau of the AKEL Central Committee met today to discuss the presidential elections, the programmatic framework and the formulation of the proposal for the candidacy to be submitted to the Central Committee.E.C. which will meet next weekend, 7-8 May."
He adds that the discussion in the Political Bureau will continue tomorrow, Thursday, 5 May 2022.
As mentioned in a previous Cyprus Times report, if there is no upset, AKEL's chosen candidate will be one of Andreas Mavroyiannis and Achilleas Demetriades, but no one yet knows which way the scales will turn.
As for the next steps, the Political Bureau is expected to prepare a proposal to the Central Committee, which will meet over the weekend.
Essentially, the Central Committee will be asked to decide whether one of the two names will be put before the party's members for discussion (and ratified), or whether both names will be put up for discussion, so that the AKEL base can choose.
However, the attitude of the party's Secretary General Stefanos Stefanou is expected to play a decisive role.
According to all information, the trend in AKEL's leadership indicates that one name will eventually be the one that will go to the base.
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