By Nikos Georgiou
MP DISY Famagusta
An opposition which in the course of the nine years of President Anastasiades' government exercised a flattening and nihilistic opposition. Such was the political fury that pervaded the opposition, which proceeded to blind and inexplicable political blows, such as voting against the state budget at crucial moments for the country and the world.
An opposition that saw its political and electoral influence shrink successively since 2013 in all the electoral contests that followed. Far from accidental, the gradual erosion of its electoral base among the citizenry has been far from accidental. Their sterile opposition rhetoric and their political practices were disapproved by the citizens because they were empty of content, formulaic, without credibility and accountability as the circumstances and data of each period dictated.
One would have expected that the time would come when the opposition would learn from its mistakes, mature politically and present its own credible proposal to the people. Its own vision for the change in the governance of the country that they themselves covet. This, after all, is required by the role and the reason for the existence of political parties that have different ideological starting points and clear positions. After nine years of harsh opposition, they failed to join forces in the pursuit of their common goal of ousting the Democratic Rally from the government of the country, they failed to find candidates from their own political sphere, and they did not even choose their own political leaders. Instead, they chose candidates who faithfully served from political offices and roles the political positions and decisions of the otherwise disastrous government of President Anastasiades and the Democratic Union.
AKEL supports the candidacy of the nine-year negotiator of our national issue and representative of the PDP in the Cyprus settlement talks. A highly distinctive political position, serving the policy of President Anastasiades on the top issue that concerns the present and the future of our country.
On the other hand, the PPP, seeing and doing, is running away. It is preparing to announce its support for the former Government Spokesman and Foreign Minister of Anastasiades' governments - D.SY.. It seems that the animal instinct of self-survival has been prioritised and has nullified all political credibility and consistency on the altar of the 'spoils' of power. Besides, they have stated that the PPP will be in the next government, without a trace of reference to political convergences and programmatic positions for the course of the country. Really, how easily they can ignore and invalidate their political self.
The political alliance between D.K.O. and N. Christodoulides is nothing but a disparate electoral waffle that covers each other's political weaknesses and phobias. An alliance that will collapse like a house of cards when they are called upon to speak in political terms, let alone when they have to take serious decisions on critical issues for our country.
The only message that the leaderships of AKEL and D.K.O. are sending out to citizens with the choices of their presidential candidates is that they cannot become protagonists. Either because they CANNOT, or because they DO NOT want to take responsibility and govern the country.
Therefore, citizens will look for a serious and credible choice. Averof Neophytou is a political capital for the country. Authentic and hardworking. He proved that he knows how to give solutions to the problems and crises that arise, against laicism he dares to be effective and beneficial for our country.
In the difficult five years to come, our country needs a proven and experienced leader and not an administrator to suit the petty partisan and petty political expediencies of the current empty opposition.
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