GG AKEL: The Government resigned Cyprus and we are not silent

The Anastasiadis-Alarm Government has unfortunately resigned Cyprus in Europe and in the whole world and instead of realizing the magnitude of their responsibility, they are outraged and trying to silence AKEL, said on Saturday the party's Secretary General, Andros Kyprianou in his speech at the event outside the Presidential Palace, at the end of the anti-corruption march entitled "We do not tolerate, we do not keep silent, we react".

"To forget that AKEL can be silenced or blackmailed. AKEL since 2016 has denounced the abuse of the investment program and the corruption that is growing in our country and will continue to do so. AKEL has no hidden commitments, nor is it afraid of the truth. That is why they cannot threaten or blackmail it, "he said.

The Government, he added, also attempting to disorient the issue, focuses on the AKEL MP, forgetting the Speaker of Parliament, and said that AKEL insists that everything, absolutely everything, should be investigated and responsibilities should be assigned where they belong, if any.

Mr. Kyprianou wondered in which other European country the President's family business records profits from applications submitted and approved by the Council of Ministers chaired by the President or the President receiving luxury travel gifts by private jet of a foreign tycoon whose extended family dozens of passports from the Government.

"In what other country are the deposits of everyone else cut, but not of the President's family environment? In what other country do associates of the President's law firm go to a meeting at the Presidential Palace with other names to sell state-owned airlines? In what other country do tycoons get passports, after the businesses of the President's children build them buildings and then become sponsors of the Alarm events? "

He also wondered in what other European country these things happen and the President declares without difficulty that he is innocent and undefiled as innocent pigeons.

"The biggest truth is that in the days of Mr. Anastasiadis and DISY, corruption grew. "Scandals follow one another, entanglement grows, corruption becomes consciousness."

We insist on fighting, he said, corruption and entanglement, to address everyone's conscience. But also to try every day, to prove who we are and who we are with. We must win this bet, he intended.

"We are a party whose people are influenced by the system in which it lives. It is tested there. As soon as he finds such phenomena in his house, he is called to reaffirm himself. To take corrective and structural measures ". This is what we do and this is what we will continue to do, to honor the trust of those we serve, he added.

The Secretary General of AKEL also referred to the proposals for strengthening the institutional and legal framework. They proposed, he said, legislation on the financial activities of non-governmental organizations with the aim of transparency and control over their funding. Also, modernization of the institutional and legislative framework that governs the offers and purchases of armaments programs, always keeping in mind the aspect of national security, as well as the secrecy that governs the field of Defense.

Among other things, he said, stricter penalties have been proposed, so that the consequences of any offense against the State are deterrent to their commission, improving citizen accessibility to the authorities, especially in matters of securing public documents, service and transparency. in relation to decisions that affect him.

Furthermore, modernization of the Public Service with the aim of enhancing transparency in decision-making and the introduction of more objective, measurable criteria in the recruitment and evaluation process of civil servants.

"So we do not tolerate the few to get rich on the backs of our people. At a time when many are struggling with nails and teeth to make the month go by, the establishment has to make billions in profits. To spread the entanglement tentacles to inflate their profits, but to tighten the belt for the employees "he added.

On the contrary, he added, in a Government that made corruption a science, "against practices reminiscent of underdeveloped states. In the face of so many scandals, the unprecedented entanglement, the arrogance and the pachyderm of the rulers who promote their own interests. "In the face of a system that irrigates the new generation with the rage of easy and quick profit, that erodes consciences, we react," he concluded.

Source: KYPE