The staffs of the presidential candidates will request a meeting with the RIK management to discuss the proposal for a debate, as their representatives decided at a meeting held this afternoon.
Essentially, RIK's proposal, submitted shortly before the meeting, caught the staffers by surprise and somewhat confused things. This is because it does not envisage hosting inter-channel debates but its own public television debates with its own journalist. This means that if similar arrangements are claimed by the other channels, then the number of debates will be large to the point of being prohibitive.
The staffs' representatives agreed to contact RIK to discuss its proposal and said that under no circumstances do they want to disregard the private channels. The contact with RIK and the private TV stations was undertaken by journalist George Agapios Agapios on behalf of the staff of George Kolokasidis, who hosted the meeting and had the initiative to coordinate all the staffs for the debate.
The staff of Averof Neophytou was represented at the meeting by DISY press spokesman Dimitris Demetriou. Leontios Filotheou represented the staff of Andreas Mavroyiannis, Marina Hadjimanoli represented the staff of Nikos Christodoulides, Antonis Antoniou represented Mario Iliades, Rodoula Demetriades with Konstantinos Christofides, Loukis Skaliotis with Achilleas Demetriades and Geadis Geadis with Dimitris Souglis with Christos Christou.
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