By Nikos Georgiou
DISY Famagusta MP
It put an end to the secrecy and dishonesty that pervaded the processes for making his supposedly final decisions, while at the same time he was in full swing and unfolding his election campaign.
An announcement which finally brings him into the limelight. Although we live in the age of image, fake news, and paranoia in some cases, nevertheless on some serious issues you expect similar behaviour. The fiesta of announcing his candidacy had all the technological shots, lighting, stage setting, except for the most basic element, thoughtfully planned.
It is inconceivable and not allowed for a politician, who is running for the highest office of the country and claims to have visions for the future, in his first public communication with the citizens, to make his political speech with borrowed phrases, borrowed political speech and borrowed visions of another era fifteen years ago. To copy and try to create impressions through the thoughts and reasons that led Mr. Kasoulides in 2007 to run for the Presidency of the Republic. A time when every speech of Mr. Kasoulides' candidacy speech had meaning and reasons of reference, which united and inspired the whole world of the army and not only in a genuine and honest political struggle, which today has absolutely nothing to do with the personal ambitions of Mr. Christodoulides.
The atrocious plagiarism of Mr. Kasoulides' 2007 candidacy announcement speech widens the circle of shortcomings of Mr. Christodoulides' candidacy. In addition to his decision to stand against the historic party, which promoted and endowed him politically, by acting as the Trojan horse of the opposition, inevitably creates for him a lack of credibility and political consistency. The issue of the absence of the appropriate political seriousness is now raised.
From the staff of Mr. Christodoulides and various circles of his entourage, they have tried to callously downplay it with reports that there are copies everywhere, that the reaction is supposedly petty politics and to ask DISY to counter political arguments.
The decision of Mr. Christodoulides' decision to discontinue his professional cooperation with the communicator Mr. Flesas and thus to become the "Iphigenia" of the staff, essentially charged him with his first political defeat, which came simultaneously with the official launch of his election campaign. His action not only confirms the denunciations made by DISY, but also exposes him even more. It is worth mentioning that before the announcement there were guided publications with rave reviews about his communicator (as if it is communicators who elect the PTA ), that he worked with Samaras and Kasoulides and is generally a professional who worked with the right and knows how to win battles.
An inexperienced and harmless politician can have a communicator, acting and reading what he is given to create the image. An ordinary politician may have several communicators, listen to various opinions and choose which one to follow for his public image and positioning.
A political leader, however, may have not one but ten communicators, listen to an equal number of assessments and recommendations, and in the end reject them all. He can follow his own instinct, his own pure political speech, his own imprint, his own convictions, unquestioningly and sincerely.
To have these qualities, one needs to have fermented and travelled many miles in the masses of Cypriot society. To have clashed with mindsets that kept the country at a standstill, to have been in the face of all sorts of crises in the country, to have told the citizens the truth no matter how harsh it was. He needed to have fought political battles for the survival of the country and not chosen to remain unresponsive, immersed in sterilization with the logic of zero political cost.
This is the great difference through which a political leader emerges. Mr Christodoulides is proving to be beneath the circumstances.
The candidacy of Mr Averof Neophytos is worthy. He belongs to the range of politicians who have delivered tangible results to our country, because he has content, knowledge and knows not to recite borrowed visions, but to embrace them, believe in them and find ways to put them into practice.
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