Messages against the EU’s neo-liberal policies and the policies being implemented in Cyprus must be conveyed
Statement by AKEL C.C. Spokesperson Stefanos Stefanou
24th May 2019, “Astra” radio station
In this Sunday’s European elections, messages must be conveyed against the EU’s neo-liberal policies, as well as the policies being implemented in Cyprus, stressed AKEL C.C. Spokesperson Stefanos Stefanou talking to “Astra” radio station.
Mr. Stefanou underlined that these messages can only be conveyed by strengthening AKEL, which is struggling for a more human Europe.
Referring to AKEL’s percentage vote, Mr. Stephanou said that there are optimistic signs, but election percentages are judged at the polling station and not in opinion polls, which is precisely why not a single left-wing vote must be wasted so as to secure the election of two MEP’s from AKEL.
He stressed that the governing DISY party has been engaging in extremist and far-right rhetoric lately and has even reached the point of attacking an entire political faction calling its people “zeros”.
Referring to the ultra-right, he said that the danger from the rise of the far-right in Cyprus and in Europe is indeed great, which is also due to the deficits in the neo-liberal policies being implemented in Europe.
Stefanos Stefanou pointed out that the far-right can’t be combated if these policies aren’t reversed and added that the far-right can’t be addressed in sporadic and in a fragmented way.
He noted that the Social democratic EDEK party is today attacking ELAM, but what it says today it wasn’t saying until recently. On the contrary, he pointed out, EDEK organized events together with ELAM on the Cyprus problem, as well as cooperating in the House of Representatives, as did all the other parties with the exception of AKEL.
When AKEL, Stefanos Stefanou said, stood up and confronted ELAM, the other parties turned a blind eye and were indifferent.
