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AKEL wishes the entire Cypriot people - Greek Cypriots, Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Maronites, Armenians and Latins - as well as refugees and migrants living and working in our country, that 2022 will be a year of health, peace and progress. We assure everyone that AKEL will continue its action and struggles even more resolutely for all that our people and our homeland deserve and are entitled to. For the vindication of Cyprus, reunification and peace. For the fairness and rights of the world of work. For the visions and aspirations of the new generation of the country.
As he says, "the advent of the New Year finds humanity affected by a new outbreak of pandemic.It is the wish and hope of all of us that 2022 will lead, with the weapon and tool of science, to the definitive end of the pandemic and with it all the restrictive measures that exhaust the societies of the planet. We recall, of course, that as long as vaccine patents are not abolished, tens of millions of people in the poorest countries of the world will not have access to vaccines, with incalculable consequences in human lives and in the overall fight against coronavirus.
Beyond the pandemic, the people of Cyprus are experiencing a reality that is far from the government's grand talk of reform and recovery.
Beyond the pandemic, the people of Cyprus are experiencing a reality that is far from the government's grand talk of reform and recovery. Accuracy, low wages, the aggression of the banks, poverty and inequalities, the dire state of public hospitals are what the vast majority of society faces every day.AKEL's promise of responsibility towards the workers and the people is that in 2022 it will further intensify its demand, inside and outside Parliament, for the regulation of labour relations and decent wages, for the full restoration of the ATA and measures to deal with the issue of poverty, for legislative interventions to put a brake on banking arbitrariness, for the defence of public education and health, to rebuild the welfare state.
At the same time, the phase that the Cyprus problem is going through makes it necessary for everyone to reflect with responsibility towards history on the course that the country and the future of the next generations of Cypriots are taking. Turkey is deepening its occupation, sharpening its aggression, strangling Turkish Cypriots and claiming more defiantly than ever the definitive partition of the island. Unfortunately, however, the support of the international community, including the EU, is proving to be only verbal. In the face of this, a consistent policy is needed that effectively prevents the Erdogan-Tatar duo from completing their dichotomous plans. What is needed is a policy that pushes things towards the resumption of negotiations from where they broke off in 2017, as this will automatically nullify the occupying power's machinations. We should all work and struggle to overcome the current disheartening landscape of the Cyprus problem and revive hope for a solution, liberation and reunification.
2022 will be a decisive year for the cause of change in the governance of the country. AKEL shares the anxiety not only of the world of the Left but also of every progressive and democratic citizen of the country to rid the country of a government of corruption, arrogance and big economic interests. AKEL assures that it will do everything in its power to ensure that 2023 marks a change in governance and a new course for our Cyprus. To this end, we address a message of unity, rallying and optimism to every Cypriot who believes that Cyprus and its people deserve better.
With hope and determination, AKEL wishes a Happy New Year to all and sundry."
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