The priorities of each political party are revealed
Statement by Georgos Loucaides, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C. of AKEL and AKEL-Left-New Forces Parliamentary Spokesperson
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 11th February 2017, Nicosia
It’s easy, we think, for each and every one to contemplate what is the message that all the rest of the political parties – except AKEL – sent out with their decision yesterday to celebrate the 1950 Enosis referendum in schools and how this action of theirs will be exploited during this particularly critical phase of the Cyprus problem by those within the Turkish Cypriot community who do not want a solution.
The entry of ELAM in Parliament and the decision approved yesterday by a majority of the House of Representatives, which apart from the teaching of the Enosis referendum already included in the school curriculum and that in addition this should be celebrated in our schools, reveals a great deal. It doesn’t reveal the extreme right that was and is very well known, but it does above all disclose the rest of the political forces who with the greatest of ease have unfortunately become a tail of Enosis advocate and ultra-right ELAM’s attempt to bring back events in schools to honour and pay tribute to the Enosis referendum, which had been terminated with the treacherous coup of EOKA B and the Turkish invasion.
This development reveals what ideological direction each political force is following. Furthermore, it reveals every political force’s priorities and whether these priorities are being set with an eye to the forthcoming presidential elections or to the future generations.
