Onasagoras
The President feels he’s co-governing with nearly every party except AKEL and ELAM. He even claims he’s fully following the policies of DISY, naturally causing multiple strokes at DIKO, EDEK, and DIPA. Now, I get that he wouldn’t feel any connection with AKEL, but to deliberately skip over ELAM, the main pillar of his support, you could call that a touch ungrateful.
He even told us the Greens stand by him, though let’s not forget that until recently, the Hunters were also in his camp. How exactly he managed to keep both those who want to save the little birds and those who shoot them happy is both baffling and, in its way, admirable. As the hunters’ own saying goes, two turtle doves with one shot. Well then, aim well…NOT.
Of course, I don’t really want to believe the gossip that our young former retiree tells everyone exactly what they want to hear, making disagreement impossible. Then again, let’s not forget the somewhat WTF reason the Hunters once supported him: he shared the same spiritual father as their leader, before said leader repented, renounced Satan, and in the same breath renounced Christodoulides. Lord, put a guard over my mouth.
“The government reeks of corruption and institutionalized opacity.” -Sotiris Christou, Deputy Chair of the Greens
So just when we expected ELAM to be the ones fuming, after all, young Nikos conveniently forgot to mention them among those “co-governing” (a logical omission since ELAM has already devoured a good chunk of the three smaller government partners), suddenly we see a furious post from Sotiris Christou, Deputy Chair of the Greens.
Allow me to share some excerpts so you can taste the grapes of wrath: “Never, not even for a moment, did I consider that I personally or the Green Party were part of Nikos Christodoulides’ co-government.” He goes on about “criminal mismanagement of sensitive areas, rape of nature, the stench of corruption and institutionalized opacity,” and concludes: “Christodoulides sees visions of co-government where none exist, and instead of looking for solutions on the Cyprus problem, energy, water, etc., he busies himself dividing up posts among his own.” Say what?
My dear Sotiris, this is Cyprus. You might want to calm down a notch. I thought Adonis Yiangou was the President’s harshest critic among the Greens, but clearly I was mistaken. Something tells me the anonymous trolls on X are already sharpening their arrows.
The very harsh tone of the post did stir up internal tremors among the Greens, while some vague negative hints were also spotted in a post by Giorgos Perdikis. A follow-up party statement indirectly yet unmistakably contradicted Christodoulides, clarifying that the Greens are firmly in “constructive opposition.” Whatever that means… Should we expect a similar statement from Annita too?
As for Vasilikos and ADMIE, I had voiced my doubts and suspicions long ago. We’ll comment on the developments tomorrow; shocking to some, utterly predictable to others.
