Violating public health protection measures or spreading unscientific theories about the non-existence of the virus is unacceptable
Statement by AKEL C.C. Spokesperson Stefanos Stefanou on yesterday’s incidents and government measures
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 11th December 2020, Nicosia
The right to free expression and protest is respected. Provoking incidents, such as those that took place outside the Dias media complex, are unequivocally reprehensible.
AKEL points out that it is the right of every citizen to express his/her disagreement with the measures decided by the government as to their proportionality and effectiveness. What is unacceptable though, in the current unprecedented conditions we are going through, is the incitement to violate public health protection measures or to spread unscientific theories about the non-existence of the virus. This is dangerous and unacceptable on the part of citizens and prominent church figures.
At the same time as all of this is happening, the country is in a dire situation and the government has to sense it. The number of cases and deaths of our fellow citizens are increasing. People’s patience is running out. Small and medium-sized enterprises are facing the risk of mass closures, something that will break the backbone of Cyprus’ economy. This is the result of the handling that the government has chosen to make all this period.
AKEL again addresses an appeal to the government to immediately implement a scheme to provide support towards small and medium-sized enterprises, to resolve the issue of rents and bank installments, to stop obstructing the freezing of evictions and to contribute to the continuation of the suspension of foreclosures.
