Government closure of Cyprus Airways will lead to their privatization

 

Statement of Georgos Loucaides, AKEL C.C. Press Spokesperson

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 13th January 2015, Nicosia

 

The Minister of Communications and leading officials of the DISY party, in their statements yesterday on various television panels reaffirmed what the whole of society and the former employees of Cyprus Airways know. Namely, that the closure of Cyprus Airways was the deliberate choice of the government of DISY and Anastasiades, a policy choice that was planned long ago and executed to the end. What else therefore can the statements mean made by DISY leading officials that our national airlines should have been closed down a long time, as well as the Minister of Communication’s statement that the State cannot be involved in air transport activities and that the state-owned air transport companies cannot survive in the European Union?

It is now evident to every citizen that through in their public discourse and mainly through their actions and omissions, the government and ruling forces have chosen to close down our national airlines in order to meet their dogmatism and primarily to serve specific private interests in the field of air transport. In doing so, they are completely disregarding the extremely negative consequences on the Cyprus economy, tourism and the consumers who will now be at the mercy of the appetites of the private monopolies, as well as disregarding the damage to the state entity of our semi-occupied homeland.