AKEL warnings about government submission to the Troika confirmed

Statement by Georgos Louciades, AKEL C.C. Spokesperson

6th March 2014, Nicosia

 

Yet again the government, via the Finance Minister admitted in public what Mr. Georgiades had declared only last week in an interview with the newspaper “Daily Telegraph”, namely that the Memorandum, regardless of the Troika’s presence here in Cyprus, could have been the political and ideological manifesto of the Government and evidently of the ruling Democratic Rally DISY party.

It is now quite clear that the Nicos Anastasiades government is in complete variance with its pre-election pledges to the Cypriot people. Aiming at coming to power, the President of the Republic pledged before the election that he would be assertive towards the Troika, that he would put up resistance, that he would negotiate hard the Troika’s various aspects or illogical objectives, that there were uninfringeable “red lines”.

Today what AKEL had persistently been warning about is being confirmed. That is to say, that the Government would fully identify with the Troika, quite simply because the Government and the Troika are equally fervent advocates of the neoliberal policy of brutal austerity, deregulation of labour relations and privatisations. Besides, the fundamental goal of the Government and the Troika is common for the distribution of our country’s wealth to the benefit of the big private interests, domestic and external.

The people do not have any doubts now about the Anastasiades government’s real motives. In addition, Cypriot society and citizens, are gradually realising that the climate of fatalism and submission that the Government and the DISY party are cultivating, on the pretext of the Memorandum and invoking the absence of any room for conducting any negotiation of its provisions, aims at damping the people’s resistance towards the socially unjust and dead-end policies of the Troika and the government ruling forces.