Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' greatest success is annoying Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says DISY President[/QUOTE]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' greatest success is annoying Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, DISY President and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou said, noting that the stakes of the next presidential election should be credibility.
In statements after a meeting with the Secretary of the Political Committee of the New Democracy, Pavlos Marinakis. Neophytou reiterated that he feels proud of the messages sent by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his speech to the US Congress, especially that neither Greece nor the international community will accept a two-state solution and that the open wound of Cyprus must be healed, positions of principle that were praised by the entire Congress, he said.
"But I also told Paul that the biggest success was the annoyance of Erdogan," Neophytou added, noting that "this is why we have to be credible and this is a clear message. When you have a clear clear orientation for your country you become credible and this is what we need to pay attention to in Cyprus and for the stakes of the next presidential elections."
He said that in order to solve national issues, to maintain stability and realise your national visions in a country as small as Cyprus, you have to keep your credibility abroad and you have to avoid the easy paths of politics, trying to increase your popularity at home by destroying your own and your country's credibility abroad.
"The right and patriotic way for the good of a country," he continued, "is to keep your credibility as a politician and as a country high abroad because it is from them that the realization of national goals depends, because you need their support, rather than taking the easy road of populism and popularity."
Neophytou also praised Greece's exit from the memoranda and the strengthening of its credibility, adding that in Cyprus, the government of Nicos Anastasiades and the Democratic Rally managed two crises, the economic and the pandemic.
"New Democracy and the Democratic Rally, pillars of stability for Greece and Cyprus," he said.
In his own remarks, Pavlos Marinakis said that "Greece of 2030, Cyprus of 2030 must not take a single step back to become what the generations to come deserve."
"And that is why we unreservedly support Averof Neophytou and believe that he will be the next President of the Republic of Cyprus. What Greece has achieved, what Cyprus has achieved, we must not give away to populism and easy solutions," he added.
At the same time, Mr. Marinakis referred to the example of Cyprus in private and public higher education, saying that "it must be heard loudly in Greece", adding that the battles fought for the revision of Article 16 of the Greek Constitution were not possible "because of the forces of maintenance, the essential maintenance that is the left and the centre-left".
"Private universities, apart from increasing the GDP in Cyprus, have greatly strengthened the public universities, made them more competitive, made them much more relevant for the students who study here," he concluded.
Source: CNA
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