AKEL congratulates the President of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras on its electoral victory

 

Statement of Stefanos Stefanou, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C. of AKEL

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 26th January 2015, Nicosia

 The General Secretary of the C.C. of AKEL, Andros Kyprianou yesterday evening had a telephone conversation with Mr. Alexis Tsipras and congratulated him on the big electoral victory of SYRIZA in the parliamentary elections of Greece.

Today, the General Secretary of the C.C. of AKEL sent the following letter to Alexis Tsipras:

 

“Mr. Alexis Tsipras,

President of SYRIZA,

 

Both the C.C. of AKEL and personally myself express our warm congratulations on SYRIZA’s election success yesterday and on your election as Prime Minister of Greece.

The electoral strength the Greek people has given SYRIZA sends a strong message across Europe and beyond, that the policies of austerity and exhaustion of the popular strata are no longer being accepted and tolerated. This must be understood at a European level and the will of the sovereign Greek people should be respected by all.

As far as Cyprus and its political problem is concerned, we hope that the new Greek Government will give a new impetus to the efforts to dampen the Turkish intransigence, to the beginning of substantive talks and the solution of the Cyprus problem. As AKEL, we are always ready and willing to cooperate so as to contribute in this direction.

Common struggles unite us with SYRIZA. We waged, and will continue to wage, many battles at a European level both within and outside the European United Left-Nordic Green Left.

I wish every success in the implementation of the Program of SYRIZA so that the Greek people’s hope for better days is put into practice. “

AKEL calls on the Anastasiades Government – regardless of the fact that it belongs to a different ideological and political spectrum – to support the effort of the new Greek government to address the anti-social neoliberal policies being imposed by the ruling circles in Brussels, which are causing poverty and misery to the peoples of Europe. The Cypriot people who is suffering from the anti-people’s Memorandum, is also a victim of these policies. The neoliberal policies of the ruling circles in the European Union must change. And this can only be done through assertion and struggle, and not through submission and apathy.