Everything, or almost everything, is ready for the announcement of the independent candidacy of Nikos Christodoulides.[/B] The former Foreign Minister's associates are waiting for the green light from him to announce the date and time of the announcement, which many are waiting for with interest and many others with impatience.
In Pindarou they are already preparing for the big battle. The bet of rallying is turning into a mission with no margin for error, so that the party emerges from the election with the least possible losses. In DISY they began to take DIKO's support for Nicos Christodoulides for granted and are now also turning their fire on Nicolas Papadopoulos' party, with the direct accusation that it will seek change with a member of the Anastasiades government. Until now, DISY has taken a more cautious stance towards DIKO, but given the way things are evolving and as time passes, party decibels are rising.
In DIKO they are in anticipation of Christodoulides' announcements, which will be made in the next few days. Nicolas Papadopoulos himself stresses that there cannot be any move unless it is preceded by an announcement from Christodoulides. Therefore, the vision developed by the former Foreign Minister will be decisive for the continuation of the moves of DIKO, possibly also of the EPP and even of the PPP. Nikos Christodoulides understands that any cooperation with DIKO also contains a great political risk, because to a large extent it will act as a rallying point for a part of the voters who will adopt the "Trojan Horse" accusation that Pindarou attributes to him. On the other hand, however, it is estimated that support from DIKO will cover organizational and other weaknesses of Christodoulides' candidacy, who at the same time wants to preserve like the apple of his eye the image of an independent effort, with cross-party and multi-party characteristics. This will be pursued with the presence of persons from all ideological and political areas, without party labels.
The same accusation of seeking change with a close associate of President Anastasiades is levelled by Pindarou against the major opposition party, following the selection of Andreas Mavroyiannis by the Central Committee as the proposed candidate to the party's base. DISY believes that the selection of Mavroyiannis will force AKEL to change its narrative on the Cyprus problem. This, according to Pindarou, will relieve Averof Neophytou of the obligation to defend the policies of the President of the Republic, but at the same time, it will also make it easier for Nicos Christodoulides. DISY also believes that the candidacy of Andreas Mavroyiannis will take a hit from Achilleas Demetriades, primarily in urban Nicosia but also on a pan-Cypriot scale, especially among citizens who are strong supporters of the Cyprus solution.
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