AKEL MP Andreas Pasiourtidis blames the government and DISY, due to the non-inclusion on the agenda of next Thursday's plenary session of the law proposal tabled by AKEL for a cap on the price of fuel. In a statement in Parliament, Pasiourtides said that the President of the Trade Committee, while he had pledged that the proposal would be brought before the plenary, was pressured and reneged on his commitment.
"With surprise, we recently received the agenda of next Thursday's plenary session and we found that the proposal for a law on the fuel cap is not before the plenary session," the MP said, explaining that AKEL's proposal aims to offer a tool to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. It seems that it bothers some people so much
[/B] that with clear instructions from the government and DISY - and let them prove that this is not the case - while the President of the Committee pledged that it would be on the plenary agenda next Thursday, it is not," he added.[/P]According to him, the President of the Commission had committed that on Thursday the proposal would be in the Plenary, which Pasiourtides had publicly announced last week, thanking his colleague, but this did not happen, leading Pasiourtides to point out that the government and DISY "keep trying to confirm the change in the meaning of 'commit'. He said, moreover, that "the President of the Committee, for reasons he knows himself - and yes, I say there are instructions and let him prove otherwise - is not sending the issue to the plenary session."
The AKEL MP stressed that his party's actions will continue in order to bring the issue to the plenary session on Thursday, because, as he said, in this way, every political force will have to assume its responsibilities before society. "The hide and seek must end. Clearly everyone must come out and say why they agree or why they disagree. The fact that they are avoiding taking the matter to the plenary shows that they are afraid to face society," he said. He said actions on this matter were also directed to the Speaker of Parliament.
"We have asked the Speaker of Parliament to intervene because the matter is urgent. Two plenary sessions remain, on July 7 and July 14. If on the 14th it is on the agenda and someone asks for an adjournment, then inevitably the motion goes to September. Society cannot afford another two months of continuous increases without at least one weapon in the Minister's hands to use when she sees fit," he concluded.
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