Our country does not need experiments, President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades said tonight, noting that whenever experiments were conducted in the name of change, risks for the country emerged.
In his address to the event of the Democratic Rally on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of its founding, which was held in Eleftheria Square, President Anastasiades, gracefully stepping up to the podium for his greeting, said that "you witnessed the attempt of two members of the presidential guard to subordinate me. Neither I nor DISY need crutches."
He pointed out that "since its foundation, DISY has been an autonomous political force, because we expressed what the people wanted: the establishment of a serious political force that can meet the expectations of the people, which are none other than the feeling of security, the feeling of stability, the feeling that those who govern know."
This party has principles, which it follows. It does not change according to the times or according to the prevailing conditions. It is adaptable, it listens, of course, and engages in dialogue. These are the basic principles that led Glafkos Clerides, on a similar day in '76, to found this great party, a party that, of its 46 years of life, has governed and delivered work to this country for 20 years.
A party that respected the mandate of the people. A faction that would possibly have governed for many more years if it were not for the scourge of discord, if some people did not cultivate excessive ambitions in others by encouraging them that the time has come to govern.
It is everyone's right to have ambitions, it is everyone's right to aspire to see how much they rise politically.
It is everyone's right to aspire to see how much they rise politically. But it is also the duty of any of us - from the moment we belong to a political party, not to be said to belong - to honour it through deeds.
There were many attempts by many, either in the early stages through the use of violence, the making of threats, the marginalisation of our supporters, stigmatisation when they read certain newspapers, with the ultimate aim of either disbanding or splitting or the inability to develop. The more they tested, the more they fought us, the stronger we became. And today, know that what the people want is what we have given: stability, growth, a guarantee for tomorrow. Because we are serious and not populists. And that is what matters.
I said it at the last congress and I repeat it: one thing I want from all of you. To rally as we did in every election, to stand up and recognize that if we recorded successes it was because our party was strong in Parliament. And it was not only strong in Parliament, it had a strong leader who led, who created the prospects for cooperation. He is trying to set up a government, with alliances. I told him that for a decade I have been governing without a majority. And yet the work we have produced is recorded as if we had a majority from day one.
And if it was possible - and I repeat and underline this and you should all keep it in mind - to achieve what will be recorded at the end of the decade, it was because there was a DISY leader in Parliament who succeeded in creating those conditions and the majority, so that we could pass reforms, so that we could create prospects, so that we literally changed the course of this state.
A course that marks modernization. A course that, with what I was pleased to hear today from DISY President Averof Neophytou, will continue. And this continuity depends on each of us.
Our country does not need experiments. Whenever experiments were conducted in the name of change, we had the phenomenon of 2012 to 2013, or we had the phenomenon of the risk of bankruptcy of the country.
Therefore, 46 years since the founding of this party, it is a historical debt to each of us, to the old as the founders, to the young as the perspective of the future. This is what our history dictates, this is what our country wants, this is what I ask as the Honorary President of the faction from all those, without exception, who have the stigma of the synergist in their flowing blood, the synergist DNA.
Do not betray our faction, do not betray our country. We ask for nothing but commitment, love for the homeland and support for certainty, stability, perspective."
(PM/NG)
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