President Christodoulides’s guilty silence regarding the Videogate scandal is becoming more provocative and more suspicious in the eyes of the public with each passing day.

Statement by AKEL Parliamentary Spokesperson G.Loucaides

14 May 2026, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia

President Christodoulides’s guilty silence with regards the ‘Videogate’ scandal is becoming more provocative and more suspicious in the eyes of the public with each passing day.

Months after the revelations about the mechanism of institutional corruption and entanglement centred on the Presidential Palace and the First Lady’s Fund, the President of the Republic continues to avoid taking on the slightest political responsibility.

Instead of any answers, silence prevails.

And the more the government insists on hiding, the more public concerns intensify that we are facing yet another cover-up, as we have unfortunately experienced in other serious cases in the past.

While in other cases we observe selective leaks, in the ‘Videogate’ case there is an attempt to ensure complete silence.

At the same time, DISY, DIKO, and far-right ELAM continue to act as a political shield protecting President Christodoulides. These are the same parties that voted against AKEL’s resolution calling for the details of the companies that donations made to the First Lady’s fund should be submitted to Parliament.

The government’s claims of some “hybrid warfare” and “asymmetric threat” have already been dispelled following the revelations about the involvement of ‘Black Cube’, the so-called “private Mossad,” founded by former Israeli agents and intelligence officials.

The public is awaiting answers to the pressing questions arising from this huge scandal.

Who financed such a large-scale operation of surveillance and secret video recordings?

Who paid hundreds of thousands of euros to hire an international private intelligence firm?

Is there or is there not a possibility that an attempt was made to blackmail the President of the Republic himself?

And is the transfer of Simon Aykut to Israel to serve the remainder of his sentence—as is now being publicly discussed through press reports and investigations—linked to this possibility or not?

Every day without any answers being provided deepens the shadow over the Presidency and reinforces people’s suspicions of a cover-up.

Society demands the truth.

It demands transparency.

It demands accountability.

No one can be above scrutiny. Not even the President of the Republic himself.