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The candidates for the Presidency of the Republic accepted Averof Neophytou's invitation to hold a debate, Marios Iliades, Achilleas Demetriades and Giorgos Kolokasidis.
Earlier, DISY president and candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Averof Neophytou, after a meeting with the leadership of PASYDY at the guild's offices, called again on his fellow candidates to accept his proposal for a debate. "I have no problem with starting inclusive public debates from today, but we need to find a way to avoid going ten candidates at a time and instead of informing the people, confusing them. We can go in threes and take turns and start the debates so that people can learn about our proposals," Neophytou suggested.
Of course, George Kolokasidis also made a proposal to hold debates in the previous days.
Colocasidis' satisfaction
Commenting on the reports of Averof Neophytou, George Colocasidis expressed his satisfaction for today's positive response of the DISY president for "public debates between all candidates", as proposed by the Election Staff on June 8, 2022.
In his announcement, Mr. Kolokasidis also said that candidates Achilleas Demetriades and Marios Iliades have also responded positively to his proposal, while Mr. Mavrogiannis had informed them that he would respond after the announcement of his candidacy, which was made today.
"Our position remains that citizens have every democratic right to hear candidates for the Presidency of the Republic state and publicly defend their positions before others on all important issues of concern to them. We recall in this regard that to this end we had proposed "that all the staffs of the candidates for President of the Republic should jointly organise debates. The rules for holding the debates will be based on the basis of parity among all the candidates and will be agreed upon in advance. We believe that with good will we can reach all technical issues in a spirit of political culture and mutual respect," he added.
At the same time, he noted that within the next few days they will contact the other Electoral Staffs again in order to set a joint meeting to agree on the modalities of holding debates between the presidential candidates.
Iliades' initiative for equal treatment of candidates in the debates
Marios Iliades confirmed his positive response to the debate through his own statement.
Presidential candidate Marios Eliades said in a written statement that he responds to the public invitation of DISY President and Presidential candidate Averof Neophytou to hold a debate between the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic. Kolokasidis, K. Christofidis, A. Demetriades and H. H.
"Let everyone's ideas be heard and let the citizens judge the most honest and capable to serve them."
"Let everyone's ideas be heard and let the citizens judge the most honest and capable to serve them. The electoral process is not the exclusive affair of party candidates but the right, expectation and demand of all the people", Mr. Eliades underlines.
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