The absence of a debate on the Cyprus issue from the pre-election campaign was deafening, declared the former Speaker of the Parliament, Giannakis Omirou, immediately after exercising his right to vote, at the Kato Paphos Primary School.
“It is said that elections are the celebration of democracy and it is right. I hope and wish and expect that there will be no injury to democracy from today’s electoral process”, said Mr. Omirou, expressing the hope that, “as a result of today’s elections, there will be no phenomena that will promote populism and unrestrained demagoguery, as well as the ridicule or mockery of the political process”.
At the same time, the former President of the Parliament noted that “there was a very deafening deficit in the pre-election campaign, the absence of discussion, reflection and submission of proposals on our great national issue, the Cyprus problem”.
He also questioned whether it is about amnesia or about the abandonment of a matter of national and natural survival of Cypriot Hellenism by the political staff, adding that “whatever is happening is extremely worrying and we should note it”.
“The Cypriot issue must be the first issue for the political staff, for the political forces, for the entire Cypriot people”, emphasized Mr. Omirou.
“Other issues preoccupied the pre-election campaign and therefore the stakes of today’s elections are also different,” he concluded.