DISY’s priority is not people, but the promotion of profitability

 

Statement of Georgos Loucaides, AKEL C.C. Spokesperson

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 1st February 2016, Nicosia

DISY President Mr. Averof Neophytou yesterday claimed that Cyprus has become more credible than before, crediting this supposed “success story” to a government which having turned its pledges into a joke, will be remembered as the most untrustworthy government.

It will also be remembered as the government of the select privileged few at the service of large private interests who consider, as the foreign Troika too, that it does indeed remain credible.

As far as the claim made by Mr. Neophytou today that Cyprus is in a better situation than it was when DISY took office, we refer him to what our fellow citizens have been experiencing at first hand over the past three years, but also to what the worst by far economic indicators in Europe illustrate. That is to say, the worst by far economic indicators in relation to the continued increase of long-term unemployment, the continued reduction of wages, the on-going widening social inequalities, the lowest expenditure on health and social benefits, the unprecedented worldwide level of Non-Performing Loans, the highest by far lending interest rates, the biggest increase in public debt and unfortunately for many other relative indicators.

It is evident that the suffering and enormous difficulties hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens are facing does not represent a priority for the leadership of the DISY party. As Mr. Neophytou declared officially from the podium of the DISY Constitution Congress, the priority for DISY’s leadership is not the people, but to promote the so-called value of profit, that will be the main axis of the party’s policy. We leave them to the discretion of people.